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‘6 APC Governors , 27 lawmakers ready to join PDP’ Continued from page 1 APC governors and 27 APC members in the National Assembly, who have also drawn their consultations and secured the mandates of their constituents to move to the PDP ahead of the 2019 general elections.

According to the PDP, discussions on control of party structures in the affected states and senatorial zones have also reached advanced stage and would be completed in a couple of weeks after which the governors and lawmakers will announce their defection to the PDP. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said however, in line with decisions reached at the discussions, the APC members in the National Assembly will defect to the PDP at the reconvening session in the two chambers.

He added that the development will increase the PDP majority in both chambers.

He also said that the party assured that all grey areas of the agreement,

including issues of waivers and accommodation for participation in primaries, are being smoothened out by the former Governor Liyel Imoke-led PDP Contact and Integration Committee, which has been galvanising the alliances among stakeholders across other parties, including those from the APC. The PDP also commended the spirit of tolerance, dialogue, accommodation and oneness of purpose that pervade the alliance among members.

He said, “The party expressed its readiness to take back control of power at the centre, as well as in our traditional states of Plateau, Niger, Adamawa, Kano, Bauchi, Nasarawa, Kebbi, Kaduna, Katsina, Kogi, Jigawa, Zamfara, Imo, Edo as well as SouthWest states of Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Lagos states.

“These interests and movements from the APC to the PDP are indicators of the consensus by Nigerians to rally on the platform of the PDP to end the economic hardship, bloodletting, violence and infrastructural decay

that have become the hallmark of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration, and return our nation to the path of unity, national cohesion and economic prosperity, which the PDP is known for”.

The PDP therefore urged all members and supporters to remain steadfast and wary of the gimmicks of the deflated APC, “which has resorted to sponsoring spurious publications filled with deceptions, fabrications and lies against our party”.

But the APC has debunked the claim of the PDP, saying that it is members of the opposition party that are concluding talks to join the ruling party.

Speaking in a telephone conversation with The Daily Times on Wednesday night on the matter, the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Yekini Nabena, said: “It is not true.

The PDP spokesman is probably daydreaming. It is the other way round. The true story is that it is the members of the PDP that are concluding talks to join the APC.”

Robber jumps into lagoon with loot to evade arrest A suspected armed robber jumped into the lagoon while being chased by men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command on the Third Mainland Bridge.

It was further gathered that three other gang members were arrested by the RRS operatives, who were alerted to their activities by a victim on Monday afternoon.

The suspects, who were paraded on Wednesday by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr. Imohimi Edgal, at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja, were identified as John Akinyemi, 27; Paul Oliseh, 37 and Amos Williams, 12.

The suspects reportedly abandoned their operational vehicle, a Volkswagen Transporter, and fled on foot when they were accosted by policemen at the Iyana-Oworo end of the bridge.

A statement by the police on the incident further reads: “The policemen after being informed that the onechance robbers were operating around the area, chased the bus, a Volkswagen Transporter with the registration number, AKD 562 XP, to the bridge.

“The robbers, after being double crossed by the officers on the Third Mainland Bridge, abandoned their vehicle and were fleeing on foot when they were arrested.

“One of the robbers, who was later identified as Junior, 19, was hit by speeding vehicles twice on the bridge before jumping off into the Lagoon with the gang’s loot.”

The alleged gangleader, Akinyemi, stated: “There were four of us. I was in-charge of calling the team to work. It was our first trip for the day.

We took four passengers at Estate Bus Stop in Alapere. They were

going to Oshodi. We dispossessed them and dropped them off before Iyana-Oworo one after the other.

“We took their phones and money. We have been doing this for more than three months. We sell the mobile phones and jewelry, and we share the money.”

One of the victims, Semiu Oluwaseun, who alerted the RRS officers immediately he was thrown out of the moving bus, said the robbers collected his phone and the sum of N500,000.

Another victim, Jamiu Ojuroye, who was robbed on Sunday, identified Akinyemi as the driver of the bus he was robbed at about 8pm. He said the robbers took N150,000 from him before he was pushed out of the speeding bus.

The victim added that he attempted to struggle with the robbers, but stated that they poured a peppery substance on his face.

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L-R: Osun governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke; Senate President and Chairman, PDP National Campaign Council on the Osun 2018 governorship election, Dr. Bukola Saraki and PDP governorship aspirant, Mr. Akin Ogunbiyi, during a reconciliation and peace agreement between Adeleke and Ogunbiyi in Abuja...on Wednesday

APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (second left); Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola and others duting the arrival of Tinubu in Osogbo ahead of the national flag off of the party’s campaign for the September 22 governorship poll.

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, flanked by the Chairman of the Board of the NDDC, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (right) and the NDDC Managing Director, Mr Nsima Ekere, (left) after a condolence visit over the death of Rivers State Attorney-General at the Government House, Port Harcourt. First left is NDDC Executive Director Projects, Engr. Dr Samuel Adjogbe.

Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Nsima Ekere commiserating with Deaconess Ames Aginighan, widow of the late Pastor Power Aginighan, during a condolence visit by the commission to the family in their Port Harcourt residence.

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In a move to tackle health challenges: FG okays N6.07trn development plan Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday approved a N6.01 trillion National Strategic Health Development Plan II. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to him, the new plan, which covers 2018 to 2022, involves the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Adewole said: “The Council today (Wednesday) considered a memo from the Federal Ministry of Health on the National Strategic Health Development Plan II, covering the period 2018 – 2022.

“We had the previous Plan I which covered the period 2010 – 2015. The Plan I had 52 targets but regrettably we were only able to achieve less than two from the 52 targets.

“So, we spent a long time trying to put in place the Second Plan, so it took us about two years to get this second

plan done.

“It involves all states of the federation, it includes the Federal Capital Territory and our development partners participated in the presentation and the approval of the Plan.”

The minister revealed that the Plan was approved at the National Council of Health’s meeting that took place in Kano on June 21.

He explained that the plan had five strategic pillars and 15 priority areas, saying the five pillars included enabling an environment for attainment of health sector goals and increased utilisation of essential package of health services.

Others are strengthening the health system and protection from health emergencies as well as health financing.

“In total, this new plan has 15 thematic areas, 48 strategic objectives and 282 interventions that will help us to really improve the healthcare delivery that will offer our people.

“What is important is the stakeholder and strong health sectorwide participation of states in the presentation. We went through a fivestage process.

“The states went to develop their

plans. The federal developed ours. We came together, harmonised all the plans and we brought everybody together to validate and adopt the plan and then moved on to Kano for implementation.

“The entire projects meant for over five years will cost us over N6.071 trillion and we believe that if this funding is done, if the plans are implemented faithfully, we will achieve a 31 per cent reduction in maternal mortality.

“We will achieve 33 percent reduction in horizontal mortality and we will achieve fewer than five percent mortality reduction of 29 per cent”.

Adewole also announced that the plan would be presented to the National Economic Council (NEC) and Governors’ Forum to secure the buy-in of the governors so that the plan could be faithfully implemented.

He, therefore, expressed optimism that the plan would usher Nigeria into a new era.

On the reported outbreak of cholera in some parts of the Northern states, the minister said his ministry was collaborating with the affected states in addressing the epidemic.

He further stated that Nigeria in

Group, businessman purchase N45m nomination form for Buhari Tom Okpe, Abuja

A Group, Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network (NCAN) on Wednesday at the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretariat purchased the expression of interest and nomination form, which the party fixed for N40 million for President Muhammadu Buhari to contest the presidential election during the 2019 polls.

Also, a businessman from the South East, Ben Mudibe, paid N5million for the nomination form simultaneously.

President Buhari, the first aspirant to indicate interest for the Presidential position, was however absent during the purchase of the forms.

The APC had released the timetable for the party primaries and amount for its nomination and declaration of interest forms on Tuesday at the party Secretariat in Abuja as directed by the National Working Committee (NWC), approved by National Executive Committee (NEC).

Presenting the Bank cheque to the party National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the coordinator of the group, Sunusi Musa, said that their aim is that President Buhari sought a second term as well as ensure that he emerges victorious in the 2019 general election.

He said, “The President started laying a foundation for a better Nigeria and there is need to consolidate on the gains so far made. For these reasons, we are calling on the President to seek re-election in order to consolidate on the good work he has been doing by building on the foundation he has laid for a prosperous Nigeria.

“It is my singular honour and rare privilege to present to you a cheque

of N45million as payment for the expression of interest and nomination forms for President Muhammadu Buhari.”

According Musa, the group embarked on the project based on the recognition that the President has started laying a foundation for a better Nigeria, saying that there is need to consolidate on the gains so far made.

“We have no doubt that Mr. President has both in action an word been working to lay a foundation for a greater and prosperous nation that our generation and future generation will be proud of.

“Under his administration, Nigeria has become a country sought after for investments in the world and has assumed its leadership role in not just Africa but the world.

“Today, Nigeria‘s moribund infrastructure is being revived, there is no state In Nigeria that does not have several major Federal Government infrastructure project either completed or being executed under President Buhari.

“We have a stable and steadily growing economy that is departing from the monotonic oii dependence: agriculture is now an attractive venture as farmers are becoming multimillionaires, Nigeria is now an exporter of agricultural products as opposed to what it was three years ago.”

He noted that for the first time since the return of democracy, Nigerians have a president who could beat his chest and state that he has never stolen from government’s purse.

He added that President Buhari was not among presidents who meet at night to strike shady personal deals.

He added that President Buhari was poised to ensure that every agreement entered into by Nigeria was in the interest of the people and the country

and its unborn generations.

This, he added, had indeed boosted the confidence of investors into the country and the inflow of direct foreign Investment into the country.

“Looted funds are being recovered and ploughed back to developing our country’s deficit infrastructure.

“Almost a million farmers under the Anchor Borrowers Programme are benefiting from low interest loans and 500, 000 previously unemployed graduates are now employed under the NPower Scheme,”he said.

He also noted that 400,000 extremely poor families were already receivig N5,000 monthly stipend while over 8 million children were being fed daily in public schools across the country as promised by the Buhari-led administration.

“Today, and for the first time in our history, we have a government that is honest and sincere in investing in the poor, the masses and the underprivileged,” he said.

Musa maintained that his group could not fold its hands and watch while the foundation laid by the Buhari administration was destroyed by some other persons.

“We cannot afford to destroy the future of our children. The foundation laid by President Muhammadu Buhari must be reinforced.

“It is for this reason Mr. Chairman we have decided to pull our meagre resources together to purchase the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for President Buhari as he present himself to our party members to be chosen as its candidate for the 2019 general election,” Musa added.

Oshiomhole while receiving the group, thanked its members for the gesture and for believing in President Buhari and the APC administration.

Adewole partnership with some African countries is working toward the eradication of cholera in the continent.

The Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Alhaji Mustapha Shehuri, also told newsmen that the council approved N5billion for the construction of Abak-Eket road in Akwa-Ibom State.

According to him, other approvals

include N1.097 billion for augmentation of the N28 billion Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja road Section 1; N78 million for design, finance and operation of 750 kilowatts power generation facility.

He disclosed that N73 million was also approved for the augmentation of the construction of N1.2 billion bridge in Sumaila Local Government Area in Kano State.

NASC approves 158 new seed entrepreneurs, installs molecular diagnostic facility Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) has ratified and approved the licencing of 158 new seed entrepreneurs of different categories, even as the agency acquired a digital molecular diagnostic facility.

The Director General of the NASC, Dr Philip Olusegun Ojo disclosed this on Wednesday to journalists during a news conference at the NASC headquarters in Abuja.

Giving the breakdown, Ojo said that the new seed entrepreneurs were in addition with the existing 156 already in operation, bringing the total number of seed entrepreneurs in the country to 314, made of four large scale, seven medium scale, 39 small scale, 223 producer seller and 20 seed dealers.

He said that the licencing was approved by the governing board of the Council under the chairmanship of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh.

He buttressed that most of the newly licenced companies were not green horns in the the business but are mostly it-growers with long years of experience and have acquired necessary facilities in relevant categories they have been classified into after due assessment by the NASC. Ojo said that the increase in the number of the licence was borne out of the determination to allow many qualified entrepreneurs to explore the budding liberalised landscape of the seed industry in the country.

He said, “We all know that presently, the seed supply-demand gap is still wide and there are more calls from our neighbouring countries that look up to us for their seed supply. This underscores the point that the industry

is not yet saturated as some may think.”

Ojo stressed that NASC was not just concerned about the numbers of the seed entrepreneurs but the quality, adding that the Council is critical of the quality of seed churned out to farmers.

The DG said: “We conducted a recertification exercise of all initial 156 companies in a bid to evaluate and assess their infrastructure, personnel, capacity and capability, production capacity and operational efficiency to ascertain if they still meet up their status or rating.

“The result of this exercise led to the upgrading of six companies who had improved their infrastructure, quality assurance system and personnel while 75 were downgraded”.

According to him, the downgrade which can be traced to the lull in the seed industry owing to backlogs of debts owed to the companies does not mean a weakness in the industry but it is strategic to checkmate the activities and promote desire for quality and healthy competition among the entrepreneurs.

Meanwhile, the director general has explained that the newly acquired molecular diagnostic facility was part of the Council’s resolve to ensure that quality and disease-free seeds/seedling are made available to farmers across the country.

Ojo added that the Council was introducing the diagnostic testing of seed, using molecular diagnosis.

“This facility is new in the sub-region and will be made available to the public at a minimal fee after all loose standard operating procedures have been finanlised,” he said.

He, however, appealed to the Federal Government to increase the budgetary funding of the agency to enable it to achieve its mandates not only to the Nigerian farmers but to the West African sub-region.

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Falana faults Buhari for giving national security precedence over rule of law Esther Taiwo, Lagos

Legal luminary and human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has flayed President Muhammadu Buhari for saying that national security takes precedence over the rule of law, saying that the development can lead to a state of anarchy in the country.

Falana stated this in Lagos on Wednesday while delivering the 19th Mike Okonkwo annual lecture titled ‘Nigeria’s Unity: Matters Arising’ to mark the 73rd birthday of Bishop Mike Okonkwo of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission at Muson Centre, Lagos.

According to the legal icon, it is not the government but

the court that should define national security or else the country is heading towards a state of anarchy.

He said, “The problem of the rule of law in Nigeria has to do with our lawyers. Today, many court orders are being disobeyed and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is not bothered. We are operating distorted federalism in which every state is independent of the Federal Government”.

Falana also urged the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN) to prosecute all killers of citizens of Nigeria, adding that Nigerians must get lawyers to be responsible if criminality

must be stopped in the country.

He also urged state governors to fight for their freedom, stressing that he is in support of state policing.

He said if a new Nigeria must emerge, then there must be community policing.

The senior advocate said, “Nigeria is not a united country and we can’t have a unity of the oppressor and the oppressed, the elite do not fight for the people and professional bodies are now run on the basis of ethnicity”.

Falana said before Nigeria can have peace, the issue of collective wealth must be addressed and unless distribution of the country’s wealth is revisited, there can be no unity.

In addressing the ongoing debate on restructuring, Falana said restructuring without the equitable redistribution of the Commonwealth will not promote unity or political stability.

He said, “If the government genuinely wants to fight corruption, it has to review the wages of workers, ensure prompt payment of salaries and pension. Furthermore, the government should implement other welfare laws and institutionalise the rule of law and respect the human rights if citizens “.

Falana also warned religious bodies to stop identifying the religious denomination of citizens who are attacked or killed either by law enforcement

EFCC arraigns businessman for impersonating US Attorney-General Sessions

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned a businessman, Khareem Oluwaseyi, before a Lagos High Court in Ikeja for allegedly impersonating the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to defraud people online.

The EFCC is prosecuting Oluwaseyi on a five-count charge of alleged possession of fraudulent documents.

But when the five- count charge was read to Oluwaseyi, he pleaded not guilty to the offences.

Lawyer to the EFCC, A.M. Ocholi, told the court that Oluwaseyi committed the offences on June 29 in Lagos.

Ocholi said, “The defendant (Oluwaseyi) goes by the alias Jeff Sessions and using the moniker, he had created an e-mail address jeffsessions54@ gmail.com.

“He had in his possession an e-mail correspondence

containing false pretence titled: “Grant Money”, which he sent from that e-mail address to compbellellaine390@gmail. com, the e-mail address of an unsuspecting victim.

“Oluwaseyi had in his possession another e-mail correspondence titled: “Grant” which he sent from his Jeff Sessions e-mail address to tomzglamorously@gmail.com which he knew contained false pretence.

“He also had sent an e-mail: titled “no subject” which he sent to daphebarney3@gmail.com, knowing same to be false.”

The prosecuting lawyer added that in addition to the e-mail correspondences, Oluwaseyi was also allegedly nabbed with a fraudulent document titled: “National Endowment for Humanities”.

According to Ocholi, the offences are contrary Sections 1(3) and 68(b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related

Offences Act, 2006.

But following the plea of the defendant, Justice Oyindamola Ogala remanded Oluwaseyi in prison, pending

the determination of the bail application.

The judge later adjourned the case till September 10 for the hearing of the bail application.

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AMVCA Awards: Heritage Bank, Multichoice boost Africa film industry Motolani Oseni, Lagos Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s most innovative financial services provider, has partnered with MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, owners of the DSTV and GOTV brands to boost film industry with the sponsorship of the 2018 edition of the Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards (AMVCA).

Speaking at the event which held in Lagos over the weekend, Divisional Head, Corporate Communications of Heritage Bank, Mr Fela Ibidapo, said the bank sponsored the programme puts the Nigeria’s entertainment

space on the world’s stage and there is no better platform for Heritage Bank than this.

He added that it is also an offshoot of what the bank has been doing in the entertainment space in partnership with Multichoice.

He said the bank prided itself in its ability to hand hold different sectors of the economy in order to nurture them and help them to grow, remarking that the bank’s participation in the recent Nigeria’s creative summit has further given it a boost as it is now more committed to supporting the entertainment industry.

According to him, the bank is proud of the entertainment

industry and will continue to stand by operators in it by supporting them and watch them grow.

Also, Heritage Bank has always partnered with MultiChoice to bring the Big Brother Nigeria (BBNaija) to viewers across Africa and beyond.

Ibidapo said the bank sponsored the indigenous language category in movies and TVs: the Ibos, Yoruba and Hausa movies in a bid to promote the Nigerian culture, remarking that Heritage Bank will always support anything that has to do with the Nigerian culture, which is its heritage.

The Africa Magic Viewer’s

Choice Awards is Africa’s most prestigious celebration of film and TV talent behind and in front of the cameras.

The AMVCAs also represent the significant investment made by MultiChoice as a show of its commitment to the development of skills and talent on the continent.

The programme is based on general viewer’s choice across Africa who decides the winners by voting for the best movie and television producers in the continent.

There is a total of 27 categories, with seven categories open to public voting and 20 being categories to be decided by the AMVCA panel of judges.

officials or criminal elements.

“In other words, Nigerians should henceforth condemn the killing of any citizen or any alien living in our midst and demand that justice be done”, he added.

Chairman of the event, Chief John Nwodo, blamed the youth for not actively participating in politics, saying the past leaders came into politics in their 20s and 30s. He added that youths need proper mentoring by parents in order to take their rightful positions in governance.

Lagos State Governor Akinwumi Ambode, who was represented by His Deputy, Dr. Idiat Adebule, stressed

the importance of detribalised citizens on the development of the country, saying that if Nigeria must grow, then the importance of unity cannot be eroded or overemphasised.

The convener and celebrant, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, said Nigerians must divorce their minds from tribe when it comes to national issues, adding that there should be no party affiliation or religion and that the President must be President for all.

Highlight of the event was the presentation of prizes to winners of the 15th Mike Okonkwo National Essay competition for Senior Secondary School students.

2019 Presidency: Saraki can’t preside over Nigeria – APC Tom Okpe, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that the President of the Senate, Dr Bokola Saraki has issues of integrity and cannot preside over the affairs of the country.

The party made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja while welcoming Saraki to the 2019 presidential race.

The statement, however, added that Saraki’s presidential aspiration was a huge joke and should not be taken seriously, adding that he had repeatedly displayed his character as extremely selfish, deceitful, untrustworthy and unreliable.

“Nigerians have had enough of Dr. Bukola Saraki’s retrogressive and disruptive style of politics and deserve no more.

“While the APC welcomes him to the race as it is his right to do so as a Nigerian citizen, there are however, many issues that border on his integrity, antecedents, competence and capability to preside over the affairs of the country.

“Meanwhile we are not unaware of reports that Saraki’s presidential declaration is his tactic to deflect attention from the deluge of issues he deals with particularly ahead of the 2019 general elections”, he said.

This, the APC spokesman said, was particularly with regard to pressure to reconvene the National Assembly, and the shifting of political order in Kwara, his home state, among others.

He added that by virtue of Saraki’s antecedents, he is an abysmal failure and totally incompetent to offer himself as a candidate for the country’s leadership indicating that, “as a two-term Governor of Kwara and President of the Senate in the last three years, Saraki’s performance was not good enough.

“Saraki’s Shonga agricultural program when he was Kwara State Governor was a white elephant project in which hundreds of millions of the state funds was sunk into.

“The infrastructure, particularly roads network in the State in which the present administration remains under his tight grip and a political machination long after leaving office, remains deplorable while state resources is mismanaged through corrupt enrichment.

“A presidential aspirant who promises to create jobs and turn around the economy at the national level, must have done so in a state he served as Governor for eight years”, he said.

The statement challenged Saraki to give the nation his scorecard as a Kwara State Governor adding that the President of the Senate, Saraki used his position to superintend over budget padding, sabotage of the Executive by frustrating confirmation of presidential nominees, stalling Legislature approvals for election budgets.

This, he said, were among other treacherous actions against the APC in pursuit of his selfish political interests.

“Saraki’s journey as President of the Senate was a show of shame from one court or tribunal to another over charges of forgery of Senate rules, false declaration of assets, and being linked with armed robbers and could not be representing Nigerian youths as he claimed, especially as the ‘Not Too Young To Run’ group berated him for selfishly using their forum to make his presidential declaration.

“We are not surprised by his selfish actions as it has come to define his politics and persona as his only goal is to get to the top, stay at the top, ruin or wreck whatever he finds there or in the event of failure, collapse the system”.

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2019: APC adopts direct primaries in Kano Short News Yakubu Salisu, Kano The Ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), in Kano state has settled for direct primaries as a means of selecting candidates that would vie for elective positions on the platform of the great party.

This was made known on Tuesday in Kano after a meeting held by the Party’s Executive Committee which announced that the decision stands to improve the chances of the APC in the forth coming 2019 general elections as well as subsequent ones.

A press statement signed by the state party Chairman, Alhaji

Abdullahi Abbas Sanusi, said “APC will adopt direct primaries for selecting candidates for the Presidency, governorship, National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives) as well as the state Legislative elections.

The decision was unanimously endorsed by the state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, two Senators, Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya and Santor Barau Jibrin, 13 members of the House of Representatives led by the Chief Whip, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, 33 members of the state House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Rt Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, 53 state Executive Committee members of the party, 44

elected chairmen of the party and 44 local government party chairmen, as well as secretaries of the party in the 44 LGs”.

He added that, using the direct primary for selecting candidates stand to imbue greater confidence among members of the party, guarantees openness in governance and ensure free and fair election.

Sanusi pointed out that the party in the state, believes that direct primaries would ensure more transparency in political participation and regaining the confidence that has been lost over time, as the process of selecting candidates gets increasingly mired in secrecy.

Golden Jubilee: Osinbajo to deliver public lecture in Benin Titus Akhigbe, Benin-City Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is set to deliver a public lecture of church of God Mission International (CGMI), which was founded 50 years ago by late Archbishop Benson Idahosa.

Chairman of the legacy celebrations planning Committee of the church, Prof. John Ikhuoya, said the golden jubilee lecture titled: “The Christian politics and nation building” will hold at the ‘Balm of Gilead City’ on Saturday September 15, in Benin City, Edo State Capital.

He said this while briefing the media at the international headquarters of the church yesterday in Benin City, ahead of the programme which will attract personalities across the business world, politics and religious organisations.

Reforms: Bayelsa retires 158 post primary schools staff, nets over N500m Akam James, Yenagoa The leadership of Bayelsa State Post Primary School Board has recommended the compulsory retirement of about 158 staff of the board based on issues of age falsification and other offences considered contrary to the civil service roles.

The Board also disclosed that it has realised about Five hundred and ninety four million, one hundred and fifty three thousand, six hundred and eighty seven naira, twenty eight kobo as a result of continuous checks of all necessary books such as retirees and death cases.

Executive chairman of the board, Dr Asiam Blessing Ikuru, disclosed this on Wednesday in Yenagoa during a press conference on the state of post primary schools in the state.

She said the staff verification committee put in place by the state government spotted 413 staff cases of records falsifications, and about 158 staff were found culpable.

NDDC mourns late Rivers AG Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

L-R: Chairman, Board of Fellows, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Felix Atume; Guest Lecturer and University of Lagos, Pro-Chancellor, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), and NSE President, Adekunle Mokuolu, at the NSE’s eighth Fellowship Conferment Lecture and Ceremony in Abuja.

The Chairman, Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, has described the Late AttorneyGeneral of Rivers State, Hon. Emmanuel Aguma, as a true professional who contributed immensely to the development of the Niger Delta region.

The NDDC Chairman spoke when he led members of the Board and Management of the Commission on a condolence visit to the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt.

He was accompanied by the Managing Director, Mr of Agbaji Development Association (ADA), the full footage of the press conference. They Nsima Ekere, the Executive Director Projects, Engr. Dr Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin led by Alhaji Tayo Moyosore and Yunus need to come and see it before they could say Samuel Adjogbe, the Rivers State representative on the Abolakale of the Peoples Democratic Party he had no voice to speak for the people.

NDDC Board, Hon Iboroma Harry and other directors.

(PDP) in a counter move, said Aiyelabegan “The people of Kwara State, particularly He said: “The Late Attorney-General was not just a The battle over alleged rejection of the Senate lacked the political strength to speak for the the youths are no more nonentities. They friend; he was a brother and a professional to the core have come out this time around to say to the President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and his family as people. who had very deep insight”.

The group, mainly PDP members, are tyranny of one family holding the fates of the political dynasty and leader in Kwara State is party leaders, including Alhaji Oba Ajara, people in their hands. still raging.

“We are President Buhari and he would A chieftain of the All Progressives who along with others rejoined the Senate Congress (APC) in Ajikobi, home Ward of President after three years of going their win in the 2019 elections and two weeks after, in the governorship election, those who Dr. Saraki, Alhaji Omar Yusuf Aiyelabegan separate ways into the APC and PDP. However, reacting in an interview with think it is their right to enslave Kwarans in had last week declared that they were tired and had rejected the Senate President as a journalists yesterday, Omar Aiyelabegan perpetuity will know”.

Joy Anyim, Lagos said those who came to Agbaji/Ajikobi to Also, Abdulfatah Babaita said,”I have political leader.

He had accused the Senate President of counter him were aliens because they belong always been in politics and always in the opposition to the style of the Saraki’s. I was in forcing himself as leader of the people by to Magaji Ngeri Ward and other places.

A teenager, Sulaimon Ajayi who was arrested by the Lagos Besides, he said the people were members the Action Congress (AC), Action Congress deliberately using his position as a governor State Police Command for robbery has attributed his act to of PDP, while he is a member of APC pointing of Nigeria (ACN) and later in the APC. in the first instance and self-made political the lack of parental care. out there were no way they would not speak “I stayed with Saraki in APC because he godfather to impoverish the people.

The 14 years old Ajayi who was arrested with his friend, was a tenant in the party. He came to join Abbey Balogun 13 years old, had allegedly broken into a Aiyelabegan also accused Saraki of to protect their principal in the PDP. shop at Block 397, Jakande Estate, where they made away Also, in separate interviews in the Ilorin me so I cannot leave for him. Now that his causing lack of infrastructure development with a generator set, an amplifier, one HP laptop and a CD generally in the state only to come round at West Local Government Area, Mallam tenancy is over, he had left for his party; PDP. mixer all valued Close to N300, 000.

“I don’t believe in the style of Saraki’s intervals to raise cosmetic followers through Abdulfatah Babaita and Bekiti Mashud According to Ajayi, his father who had remarried after of Oju Ekun/Sarumi and Alanamu Wards politics and will never follow him.

His time which he doles out pittances to people. breaking up with his mother never cared for him again. He The APC chief specifically lamented respectively said only those who were is over. Market women, students, young alleged his step mother made him sleep in her shop daily. how Saraki, who he alleged, claimed to hail not willing to be liberated would counter and old are tired of him. Alhaji Aiyelabegan Parading the suspects at the Lagos State Police Command is right in his press conference. He had the from Agbaji/Ajikobi Ward of grossly under Aiyelagan.

Headquarters in Ikeja, CP Imohimi Edgal said the suspects Babaita said, “To say he (Aiyelabegan) is a people’s support. Saraki will be defeated in developing the areas for many years. were arrested by operatives attached to the Ejigbo Police Divisional Headquarter on September 2nd.

However, another group, under the aegis lone voice in the area is a lie. They did not see 2019 in Kwara State”.

Controversy rages over Saraki’s political leadership in Kwara

Teenager arrested for allege robbery in Lagos

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, September 6, 2018

Nigeria, China and need to exercise caution

Adamu Garba

Usman Bello, a trader in fabrics at the popular Kanti Kori market in Kano, shared his frustration with me the last time I visited his store for my sallah shopping. “The Chinese have taken over our market” he lamented. “They now import these fabrics in large quantities from Mali, where they have acquired huge commercial farms to grow cotton”.

The reality, in what used to be the biggest fabrics market in West Africa largely run by indigent people, is that all these folks now work for the Chinese. The Chinese have not only dominated the wholesale segment of the market, they are now taking over the retail space.

China has in the last three decades remarkably grown in economic size and global influence to the point in which they are now considered a major threat to America’s strategic interests around the world. More so, China, through its Belt and Road policy is now leading what geo-political strategists describe as the ‘New Scramble for Africa’. From roads to railways, hospitals and bridges, the presence of China in Africa is ubiquitous and undeniable.

President Buhari, like several other African leaders, has celebrated the recent

loan of $328 milliion from China, which was secured at the ongoing AfricanChina summit in Beijing. Much as we like to applaud the partnership with China, it is imperative to be cautious about this. Nigeria suffers a trade imbalance with China in a ratio of 20 per cent-80 per cent (meaning that we only export 20 per cent of the total volume of traded goods to China and import a staggering 80 per cent). In fact, most of our exports to China are raw materials extracted by Chinese companies, using Chinese labour.

First, over 90 per cent of Chinese businesses are either state-owned or are being subsidised by the state. This makes it almost impossible for locals to compete with the Chinese, consequently leading them to close shop. Outside the resources they extract from African states, most Chinese businesses also depend on supply lines outside the countries they manufacture in, creating little value for the local economy of their hosts. In our instance, it is therefore necessary that imported consumables must have their manufacturing base in Nigeria, and engage local labour. In that light, goods not manufactured in Nigeria must be

imported only by local businesses.

Second, the Chinese populate most of their businesses operating within Africa with their citizens, leaving only very low skilled jobs for people in places like Nigeria. Hence, there is need to ensure that at least 80 per cent of local labour for major infrastructural project are handled

by Nigerians.

Third, the Chinese hardly adhere to global standards of safety in their operations in African countries; they depend on extractive resources without serious consideration for the impact of their extractive activities on the environment. In the end, they leave behind chaos in their host communities.

Also, the Chinese have continued to increase the debt burden of African countries, leaving them with very little choices in negotiations over this.

Consequently, the Chinese take over critical and strategic state-owned asset from defaulting governments, in lieu of payments on the loans.

What Then Can We Do? The only way to deal with the Chinese, knowing that they have a much stronger, experienced and skilled diplomatic

corp, is to route our negotiations with them through global institutions like the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which will compel the Chinese to uphold certain standards. Under my presidency, we will regularise and conform to WTO standards and endorse the Transport Facilitation Agreement that will regulate not just trade with China, but also with other important foreign partners.

More importantly, we must engage the Chinese through the Build, Operate and Transfer principle. This way, for whatever infrastructure the Chinese intend to build in Nigeria, they must have Nigerians in the front row seats.

This way there will be the opportunity for skills exchange. Furthermore, the Chinese must also operate these infrastructure alongside Nigerians over a period of time, until such a time where the entire structure can be handed over to the government.

We should remember that every country sets up a foreign policy to pursue their own interests, with other countries coming only as distant seconds. China is not here to rescue us, they are here to further their own interests and we must remain vigilant about this.

Aregbesola, Osun State and matters arising

Inwalomhe Donald

History will remember Rauf Aregbesola for indeed 2 major developments in Nigeria, school feeding programme and sukuk bond for national development. Aregbesola has encouraged the issuance of sukuk in Nigeria because we needed to diversify the instrument in the bond market. Aregbesola worked hard to introduce sukuk in Nigeria. Osun took the initiative and helped in introducing it to Nigeria. The greatest lesson is that when Governor Aregbesola adopted Sukuk, an Islamic bond to help the state execute educational projects, his critics were calling for his head. Many said it was part of his ploy to islamize Osun.

The Federal Government took an example from Aregbesola by taken N100bn sukuk bond for the financing of 25 road projects being handled by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing across the country. The sukuk proceed would unlock the potential of Nigeria. The minister said, “This is the first sukuk bond issuance for Nigeria. It is about financial inclusion and deepening of our financial markets. The proceeds are used to support government capital spending for 2017 – the construction and rehabilitation of 25 key economic roads across the six geopolitical zones of the country. Each of the geopolitical zones of the country is expected to receive the sum of N16.67bn for road projects in the respective zones.

The North Central and South-South Zones accounted for five each of the 25 key economic road projects, while the North East, North West and South East have four road projects each In Osun State, the last 8 years of civil administration had been an epic. Osun has been able to live up to Excellent leadership as the next administration will continue to build on the foundation laid by the enigmatic pathfinder, Rauf Aregbesola.

With the state with the lowest allocation from the Federation Account and poor IGR, Aregbesola was quick to realize the need to depend less on federal allocation by shoring up the revenue base of the state. This feat was achieved through a systematic re-engineering of the internally generated revenue regimes by plugging loopholes and leakages, keeping within existing financial guidelines in a way that does not impose additional burden on the people. Aregbesola single headedly took school feeding programme and sukuk from Osogbo to the Federal Government in Abuja.

To enhance security of lives and

properties, the State Government provided about 125 patrol vehicles to security agencies such as the Army, Police, FRSC, NDLEA and the Civil Defence. 25 armoured personnel carrier, the first in the history of the state have been provided to fight incessant robbery attacks. It is also noteworthy that the state has acquired one helicopter for area surveillance and ‘’quick emergency response’’ in the state. Since this noble initiative, crime, especially bank robberies has reduced significantly to the barest minimum in Osun.

IGR increased from 300m to 1.5b per month. IGR increased from 300m to 1.5b per month - The Official Website Of The State Of Osun http://osun. gov.ng/achievements/igr-increased%e2%82%a6300m-%e2%82%a61-5b-permonth/ Osun State has set a standard for both 36 states and Federal Government of Nigeria to follow. Federal Government of Nigeria is building on progress made

by Governor Aregbesola on Osun School Feeding Programme. The Governor has transformed Osun schools from obscurity to limelight. Osun has built standard schools and produced good food for school pupils. The Osun government’s effort in the education sector has removed the dilapidated, neglected school buildings and inconducive learning environment.

Governor Aregbesola has brought innovation and localized the processing of cocoa products in the 14 cocoa producing states in Nigeria. With over twenty million cocoa farmers in Nigeria, Osun-China’s cooperation over Ede cocoa processing plant has given lifeline to Nigerian cocoa farmers who could not export their products before now.

Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (O-YES), and then move forward to employ more and provide a more conducive environment for the private sector to engage a large number of our youths in the critical sectors, including Agriculture, Mining, Tourism, Education and Social Services.

Aregbesola has embark on global initiative aims to support capacity building in Osun and the rest of Nigeria to advance future leadership focusing on sustainable global development by investing in human capital. As a symbol of national development, Aregbesola introduced sukuk Islamic bonds issuance programme to help fund big infrastructure needs in Africa’s biggest economy, aiming to tie the transaction

to one of several projects,Aregbesola has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Chinese firm, Jiangsu Wuxi Taihu Cocoa Food Company Limited, to establish a N216 billion industrial park in Osun state.

Osun State under Governor Aregbesola was the first in Nigeria to key into the establishment of an “Innovation Centre for the Agriculture and Food Sector” financed by the German Government in order to improve sustainable production and processing of food as well as entrepreneurial and vocational skills in agriculture and food processing.

Education in the State of Osun has been in the limelight, receiving bashes and commendations from members of the public since the inception of Aregbesola’s administration. It is the most critical and visible sector that has projected Aregbesola’s government and at the same time makes it controversial because of the innovative ideas brought into revamping the sector with the modern infrastructures therein.

The interventions include: the provision of international award winning digital text books known as Opon Imo – Tablet of Knowledge to students in the high schools, free school feeding programme called O MEAL, payment of external examination fees, construction of modern schools and introduction of discipline into the schools.

Opon Imo was launched in 2013 by Aregbesola. It contains e-textbooks, past questions (WAEC and JAMB) and virtual classroom for all approved subjects from SS1 to SS3. According to the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Adelani Baderinwa, “OponImo is the first stand-alone e-learning system in sub-Saharan Africa. ‘Opon Imo’ has saved parents in Osun a sum of N8.2 billion worth of textbooks. The tablet of knowledge was recently endorsed by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) in February 2017, and recommended to other states for adoption in Nigeria and it has also been endorsed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Orgainisation (UNESCO).

The Aregbesola’s government embarked on the construction of Stateof-the-Art 100 Elementary Schools, 50 Middle Schools and 20 High Schools. It was learnt that more than 20 Elementary Schools, 22 Middle Schools and 5 High Schools have been commissioned while the High Schools in Iwo and Fakunle

Unity High School in Osogbo have been completed and ready for commissioning.

Social Intervention/Security Aregbesola’s social security programmes soar beyond Nigeria.

Recently, UNICEF sent a team to Osun to understudy the social security programme of Aregbesola’s administration. The governor was lauded on programmes like OYES, O MEAL, O’ Ambulance, Agba Osun and many other programme.

Oyes Aregbesola in less than 100 day in his first term established as promised Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) through which 20, 000 cadets were employed into the public works. Another set of 20, 000 unemployed youths were engaged, rounding up the figure to 40, 000.

The OYES cadets were given safe landing with jobs in teaching, various agriculture schemes and ICT. For this, Osun now has one of the least unemployment figures in Nigeria while the state is also among those with the lowest crimes rate. The N200 million monthly allowances paid to the cadets percolate the economy of Osun and shot it up to the seventh largest GDP in Nigeria.

O’ meal Osun is one of the states that pioneered the free school feeding programme. In the programme, healthy and nutritious meals are being served to 262,000 elementary 1-4 pupils in all public schools in the state, every school day. This programme, called O’MEALS cost the government of Osun N3.6 billion per annum. O’ MEAL integrated into the agriculture and economic empowerment programmes of the state. This is because under it, 3,007 food vendors were engaged and trained to cook healthy and hygienic food for the pupils. To be able to feed these pupils, 15,000 whole chickens, 254,000 eggs, 35 herds of cattle and 40 tonnes of catfish are weekly bought off farmers and other producers in this state.

O’ambulance In February 2013, Governor Aregbesola launched 50 State-of-the-Art ambulance vehicles as part of the state’s Ambulance Service Scheme tagged O’ Ambulance.

The ambulances were stationed in strategic places on highways and across the local government. The O’ Ambulance had saved so many lives.

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Editorial Commentary Osun’s ‘uncommon’ contender

Times Guest Columnist Mohammed Adamu Prologue My three days with Osun State’s now out-going Governor, Ogbeni, Rauf Aregbesola still brings fond memories. They bring reminiscences of a state eight years in the hands of an uncommon, atypical state administrator -the ‘un-typical Governor’ I had described him. Or the ‘unusual’ one –especially in a country where, ironically, what is ‘usual’ because it has become the norm, is what is woefully aberrant, while what is pleasantly uncanny is what seems ‘un-usual’ because it is now the road less frequently travelled. Or maybe having come from such serially misgoverned state like Niger, Aregbesola’s achievements have a tendency, like the roaring tides, to rise up to the welkins in my numbing, aweinspiring gaze. Who knows? Since bad governance has become the norm, good governance, no matter how modestly so, now becomes the uncommon phenomenon to be wondered at as rarefied and heavenly. And so in a two-part series titled ‘Three Days With The Oranmiyan’, I had gone almost berserk, which is short of saying I went almost poetic, singing the ‘uncommon’ Platonic governance height of this man Aregbesola. ‘Platonic’ in the sense of a tending towards the Greek philosopher, Plato, -not ‘platonic’ in the sense of being ‘perfect’ but ‘un-real’.

By the way the outgoing Governor may not have been perfect –since none after all can be altogether faultless; nevertheless Aregbesola’s claim to being congenially different in relation to many others like him, is far from being un-real.

In retrospect, I wrote about Aregbesola’s “austere, even if inelegantly-puritanical signature code of (uncommon) trado-dressing” which I said was “a world apart from the extravagant fad of governors who step out in gaudy styles enough to provoke the envy of fashionistas even in proud Italy”. I wrote about his uncommon modesty which radiated even in his preference for the uncommon, non-superlative prefix ‘Ogbeni’ or ‘Mister’, when elsewhere his fad-bearing, mock-heroic Governor-colleagues were proudly either lapping up ‘His Excellency’ or hypocritically donning the hallow of ‘Servant-leadership’ or the more mock-heroic ‘Chief-servanthood’. I wrote about the Ogbeni’s ‘uncommon’ approach to governance, which was quite uncommonly begun with a Six-Point Integral Action Plan as a self-falsification theory by which this surefooted governor would ask those he was about to govern, to weigh and to judge him by.

I wrote about an uncommon development initiative that had almost turned an entire State into a massive construction site of sort, comprising scores and scores of uncommon projects that Aregbesola has unleashed on the State of the Living Spring which he has uncommonly, again, re-eke named ‘Omoluabi’.

Yet quite uncommonly too, Aregbesola would be the only political governor that I know who would achieve so much, relative to the abysmal performance of most of his colleagues, but who would not care a hoot about publicity the way we know others to.

In fact all my three days in Oshogbo, up to the late hours of the last night when I had the privilege of interviewing him, there was not the presence of a single press officer at any point. Aregbesola seemed to be his own media adviser. Thus you might say again, that such uncommon self-neglecting attitude to the little things that add color to good governance, is also found only in this uncommon governor of the State of Osun. ‘Self love’ Shakespeare said ‘is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting’. Aregbesola provides a fitting antithesis to Chinua Achebe’s proverbial lizard that falls from the iroko: if no one will praise me, the Ogbeni seems to say, even I will not praise myself.

The Uncommon Legatee And it is this uncommon Caesarian attitude which, amidst all conflicting demands for action, always insist “what touches us ourselves shall be last treated”, that I also saw, recently in the persona of Gboyega Oyetola, the man presumably propped up by the outgoing governor, to succeed him. Such uncommon political legatee, Gboyega Oyetola: meek to a fault,

political without partisan scurrility, self-effacing and unassumingly media-shy. I met Oyetola like I did the Ogbeni, on invitation. Yet it took almost eternity as between he and I, to settle for a formal interview, as I insisted rather than an informal parapo (interaction) as he would have preferred –with a questioner and a recorder. He seemed to me to be painstakingly unpolitician-like. He insisted on knowing the depth of every portion of the pool, before he would take a dive.

In fact, you would place a finger in the mouth of this hunt-dog and you may almost have to importune the gods forever to make him bite. Yet when he did, and had to speak, he cleared your doubt: that the taciturnity of this man is not as much for want of what to say, as it is from a surfeit of caution as to which is appropriate to be said.

And quite unlike your everyday politician, this was the first I had met who would speak directly from the heart -of a human- and not from the twisted mind, of Nikita Khrushchev’s proverbial politician, who, at his best, is usually only a man of his most recent word. In fact after meeting Oyetola I am almost tempted not to believe H.L. Mencken who said “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar”. Little wonder perhaps, that his Principal, the Ogbeni, having known Oyetola for eight engaging years as Chief of Staff, can afford to fiddle fully with state matters, while his novitiate anointed ‘successor’ is left alone to navigate the troubled political waters of Osun. Nothing more personifies absolute confidence in the proposed new dog of hunt! The way that an Obasanjo had held the gong and town-cried for a sick Yaradua, or more recently, the way that Fayose had shouldered about his anointed Deputy like a yoyo, that we do not see as between the Ogbeni and Oyetola. And who knows? –maybe the Ogbeni is trying to prove, as the English would say, that ‘a good wine needs no bush’.

Sixty-three years old, Iragbiji-born, of Boripe Local Government, Oyetola parades a Bachelor of Science Degree in Insurance and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), all from the University of Lagos. He is an Associate of the Chattered Insurance Institute (London and Nigeria), and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. Plus Oyetola has put in eight solid years as the Ogbeni’s Chief of Staff, thus having a hand in virtually every pie of the Aregbesola legacy. It should be asked in the words of Shakespeare’s King Henry “is not this an honorable spoil? A gallant prize? …for a prince to boast of”? But no. Not this anointed prince, Oyetola!

Like his Principal, he is not a man of prickly boasts.

I tried in vain to draw him into partisan mud slings, with his opponents: PDP’s Johnny-come-lately and dancing maestro Senator Ademola Adeleke, SDP’s serial contestant, Iyiola Omisore, the apostate, ADP’s disgruntled APC-defectee, Moshood Adeoti and Alhaji Akinbade. All the vaunting puff that Oyetola could muster throughout our interview was “I have a background that most of them do not have. I have a 30 year experience in private sector before I became the Chief of Staff. Again I have good knowledge of finance. I am the right person for the job”.

Epilogue Aregbesola is not only an uncommon, atypical Governor; it seems he also has a sharp eye for the uncommon, atypical successor. A friend I had given the privilege of a sneak preview, wondered how balanced and fair my piece would be if I did not also interview especially Oyetola’s main rival, the dancingdervish, PDP’s Adeleke. And I wondered what more interview anyone can educe from Adeleke! I thought that all the interview I would need from an allrounded F9-d Adeleke he has already been granting to us all almost on a daily basis: dancing! I think the choice for the voters in Osun is simple. It is between a shrewd insurer and a generous dancer. Between the chivalrous one in moments of adversity and the cavalier one who makes fun of every grave situation.

It is, as my late Principal the Chief Justice Dahiru Musdapher would say, between ‘plata’ and ‘plomo’ –‘Gold’ and ’lead’!

OUR POSITION

Nigerians, integrity and national awards

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wo security guards, Achi Daniel and Francis Emepueaku that found and returned huge amounts of dollars and other valuables to the owner at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos have received accolades across the country and beyond.

Apart from the guards, Dr. Banji Oyegbami, who spoke of their good deeds, also need to be celebrated. When he wrote that his ‘hope is not lost’ on social media, little did he know that he was heralding the fortune and integrity of two Halogen Security guards for doing what is uncommon in Nigeria.

Dr. Oyegbami, a medical doctor’s practical experience at MMIA, started on August 18, 2018 when he went to the airport with his driver to pick up his very close friend and his wife that arrived from Atlanta United States of America on board Delta Airline.

They parked their car on the first floor of the new multi-level building car park and loaded their bags into the boot of the vehicle while his friend’s wife out of excitement forgot her handbag on the trolley and drove off.

They journeyed for about one and a half hours in terrible traffic without realising that the woman’s handbag was not in the car when they received a phone call from the woman’s daughter in the US. They went back to the airport to meet the security guards of Halogen Securities as Mr. Achi Daniel found the bag and gave it to his supervisor, Mr. Francis Emepueaku, as lost but found items.

The woman cross-checked items in the handbag and confirmed that the items were complete with iPhone, large sums of dollars in labeled envelops sent through her to people in Nigeria, wrist watches she planned as gift items and other documents and valuables were intact.

Unlike some Nigerians, Daniel, who said that he had worked in the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos in the past, explained that he had returned sums recovered in the cause of his duty to their owners before now.

He insisted that the contents in the bag was never attractive to him, but lamented that some people close to him were already making jest of him for returning the contents in the bag. He, however, said that he was never discouraged by their mockery.

He said: “If the money was in multi-millions of foreign currencies, I would still have returned it. I saw the bag on a trolley and I said to myself that somebody must have forgotten it there; it was not padlocked and without opening it, I went to the ground floor with the bag to meet with my supervisor.

“Inside the bag, I saw a mobile phone, jewelries and huge amount of money in dollars and several other documents. At that point, we went straight to the manager’s office who now put a call through to somebody in Atlanta Georgia, who happened to be the daughter of the owner of the bag.

“When they returned, they were jittery that some of the items in the bag may have vanished, but after cross-checking it, she discovered that everything was intact and the family attempted to give us some amount of money as a form of appreciation, which we rejected, telling them that we were doing our job.

“It never crossed my mind to steal the money and I wouldn’t have done that because it wasn’t my first time of finding such and returning to the owners. No amount of money would make me to

take what doesn’t belong to me. I believe my own time will come and at the right time”.

Daniel, a widower, with four children, believes that only God will reward honest people no matter how long it takes. It is very rare especially in the country at this difficult times for someone to see huge amounts of money not in local currency and hand it over to the owner.

But despite the fame and rewards both guards are enjoying presently, many Nigerians are of the view that more needed to be done, especially from President Muhammadu Buhari.

Others are of the view that Mr. President owes them an invitation to the Aso Villa because of their show of love and demonstration of high level of integrity which is rare these days The two guards have changed the narrative of certain negative image of Nigeria abroad. Their singular action, which has drawn world attention, remains commendable and should be appreciated by all in order to encourage others that honesty pays.

Though the duo were given N500,000 by the management of Halogen Securities, President Buhari should not end the recognition with just writing commendation letters to the duo.

We wish to state with high sense of responsibility President Buhari should invite the two guards to Aso Rock for a presidential handshake in order to tell Nigerians and indeed the world that it is a new dawn in the land.

We are of the opinion that Daniel and Emepueaku should be given National Awards for the exemplary conduct they have played in telling the world that despite the hard economic situation in Nigeria and poor financial background, there are still honest citizens

S I G N AT U R E Publisher

Folio Communications Plc

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Copyright Commission warns against Short News piracy, summons MD, Hashtronics Satellite Darling re-brands, introduces Yakubu Salisu, Kano

The Director of Enforcement, Nigerian Copy Right Commission, Mr. Augustine Alewo Amodu, has warned that the commission would spare no one caught in the act of piracy as new strategies to curtail the activities of Pirates across the country have been adopted to put an end to the menace.

Mr. Amodu made this known in Kano on Tuesday during a sensitisation and audit visit for stakeholders in the state.

According to him, Piracy, is a canker-worm that has eaten so deeply into the fabric of the nation’s economy, which has forced many legitimate business owners out of business, and has caused great loss to those who manage to survive, a trend he said the commission under the leadership of its Director General, Mr. Afam

Ezekude is determined to check.

The enforcement team during its visit to Hashtronics Satellite Ltd. discovered that the broadcasting company engaged in illegal broadcasting using illegal decoders such as Canal Plus, Sky Sports, Bein Sports as well as Strong Decoders which give them conditional access to steal EPL, EUFA, and La Liga matches to their subscribers.

Mr. Amodu noted that the visit was prompted by a petition the commission received from MultiChoice that Harstronics engages in rebroadcasting of its programmes without permission.

“We came here today to see for ourselves after a letter of complaint we received from Multi-choice that its exclusive right is being violated by Hashtronics.

“We have been to their broadcasting rooms and we have seen the illegal

decoders they use to gain access to other people’s programmes.

“It’s unfortunate that the Manager, Mrs Glory Egharevbe was not able to provide us with any document from either NBC or Multi-Choice that grants them permission for their operations.

“We have served them a letter demanding that, the Managing Director reports to our Abuja office next Monday with all necessary documents to back his mode of operations, failure to do that, will leave us with no choice but to seal up the place”.

Furthermore, Mr. Amodu, said, the Commission would do all within its jurisdictions to protect creativity in the country, which is one of the president Muhammadu Buhari’s priority, that is, economy diversification and creating enabling environment for legitimate businesses to thrive.

3 new hair extension types ...launches #FindYourBeautiful campaign Alli Mutiat, Lagos

Lorna Nigeria, maker and marketer of Darling hair extensions has embarked on significant rebranding and has introduced three new hair extension types to improve is value proposition to its 150 million strong market across Nigeria and Africa.

The SuperSoft braids, which are softer in texture and longer than any other braids in the market, the Natural Twist which can be braided or styled and Afro Kinky, which is a tribute to the natural hair movement that has picked up across the world are the new synthetic and human hair extension types have been introduced into the Nigerian market.

“Darling understands that today’s multi-dimensional woman wants more out of life and liberation from conventional hairstyles. We are passionate about hair and the transformative power it can have on a woman’s sense of being.

Darling equips African women with an indispensable freedom to effortlessly channel any style, anytime with ease,” Chitwan Singh, Business Head, West Africa, said at a press conference.

2019: Group tasks Ebonyi APC on direct primaries Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki As the 2019 general election inches nearer, a group, under the aegis of Dozie Ebonyi has appealed to the leadership of the Ebonyi Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt direct primaries in selection of the party’s flag bearers.

The call was contained in a press statement issued on Wednesday in Abakaliki by the group and signed by its state director, Mr Godwin Igboke; the state secretary, Mr Elijah Nwamini, and the state Public Relations Officer, Mr Chidubem Egwu.

The group, which is a progressive movement within the Ebonyi APC said that direct primaries would afford registered party members the opportunity to participate in choosing candidates for the various elective positions in the forthcoming general elections.

It noted that direct primaries reduce the usual rancour, acrimony that often trail indirect primary elections.

Police arrest 10 suspects for killing officer in Lagos Joy Anyim, Lagos

L-R: Former Chief of Staff to Deputy Governor Benue State, Joe Ajunwa, Arc. Asema Achado, Zaki Aharkpana Ahedeous, Elder Fideli Gbongbon during the APC caucus member Benue state Declaration of Governorship aspirant in Abuja... on Wednesday.

Photo: Temitope Balogun

Ijaw youths condemn invasion of Edwin Clark’s home Akam James, Yenagoa The umbrella body of all Ijaw youths in the nine states of the Niger Delta region, Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, has condemned the invasion of the Abuja residence of elder statesman, Chief E. K. Clark, by men of the Nigeria Police Force.

In a statement, sent yesterday through email, by the President, Comrade Eric Omare, submitted that the invasion in the guise of looking for arms and ammunitions clearly shows that Nigeria is descending towards full blown dictatorship under President

Buhari.

The group averred that “We completely disagree with the reason adduced for the invasion which is suspicion of stockpiling arms and ammunitions from the Niger Delta region. It sounds extremely ridiculous for any security agency worth its salt to think that Chief Clark at the age of 91 years would stockpile arms and ammunitions in his house” The statement continued: “The IYC is convinced that the real reason for the invasion is to intimidate Chief Clark so as to stop him from hosting Southern and Middle Belt leaders to speak against the killings in different parts of the country and the anti-democratic

actions of the Buhari administration”.

The IYC, therefore, called on Chief Clark and other leaders of the South and Middle Belt not to be intimidated by the antics of the security agencies, but continue to speak truth to power.

“To the state agencies of oppression, we wish to warn them to desist from further harassment of Chief E. K. Clark.

“Any further intimidation or harassment of Chief Clark would be resisted by Niger Delta youths and we would not sit down and allow Chief Clark, who is the Niger Delta leader to be harassed when the Emirs and other leaders of the north are given their due respect,” the statement further stated.

A female suspect and nine others have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for their alleged involvement in the killing of a police Sergeant, Collins Isiabo at Ifako-Ijaye area of Lagos.

Recall that on Wednesday, August 29, at College Road, Ifako Ijaiye, Ogba, Lagos, a police patrol team was attacked by an irate mob during which the Sergeant with service number 260326, was attacked and killed.

The mob were protesting the death of their friend Shina (aka Ishan), who was reportedly injured during a police raid on Oshunkeye Street in Idiagbon community which resulted in his death.

The suspects - Anu Akinola 24, Adewunmi Sulieman 28, Olorunda Michael 21, Omoba Idowu 27, Olarenwaju Hammed 20, Ransom Adewuye 27, Ayo Adeyanju 27, Ige Akanbi 29, Babatunde Rufai 28, Ariyo Elegbede 52 - were paraded on Wednesday by the Lagos State Police Command.

The State Commissioner of Police, CP Imohimi Edgal said, “After the killing of the Sergeant, I had promised that the Command will do all it can to unravel and prosecute those behind the dastardly act”.

Boys Brigade urged to remain guided by ethics, discipline Rising from its 56th Annual General Meeting in Bariga, Lagos State, the national leadership of the Boys Brigade of Nigeria has tasked its teeming members to remain guided by the core values of the association and not be involved in any untoward character capable of bringing disrepute to the body.

The charge was given to the delegates for the Lagos conference

by National President of the Boys Brigade of Nigeria, Sir Sunny Nnamdi Nwosu, while addressing the press.

Sir Nwosu, who admonished members of the association to continue to work closely with the Church they practice from, also urged them to remain law-abiding and respecters of the laws of the land especially as the another general elections draws near in the country.

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Kogi APC youths reject Smart Short News I must fight corruption Adeyemi’s senatorial ambition unbiased - Obono-Obla Idris Ahmed, Lokoja The Progressives Youth Forum, a group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) of the Lokoja/ Kogi federal constituency of Kogi state has demanded for the use of Direct Primaries in choosing all candidates that will represent them at all levels of election.

Addressing a press conference yesterday in Lokoja, Leader of the forum, Ahmed Adams warned APC leadership both at the state and federal levels not to succumb

to the temptation of imposing candidates without recourse to direct primaries.

The forum said it was reacting to the recent endorsement of Senator Smart Adeyemi by the cronies of the governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello led by Speaker, Kogi state House of Assembly Hon. Mathew Kolawole.

They insisted that the only primary election that would be acceptable to them is direct primaries, threatening that any contrary option could jeopardise the fortunes of party come 2019

elections.

While rejecting any attempt at imposing Senator Adeyemi, the forum advised that the age long agreement of rotation of senate seat be respected to ensure equity and fairness among the constituents.

They said “We shall continue to remain peaceful and law abiding”, but with a warning that “failure to listen to our demand, we shall vehemently protest with our PVCs in 2019 and without stating the obvious, the result from the election will be catastrophic”.

Chris Onuoha, Lagos Chairman, Special Investigative Panel for Recovery of Public Property, (SPIP), Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has reiterated his stand to pursue a noble cause in fighting corruption in the country despite unhealthy criticism from some quarters.

Obono-Obla who disclosed this during a presentation held at the University of Calabar’s post graduate seminar recently, challenged the critics to be very objective and thorough in their criticism and not to base it on witch hunt.

He also stressed that no amount of distraction can stop the antigraft change agenda to bring sanity to the polity by exposing corrupt persons in the society.

With the paper theme: “Place of Anti-Graft Agencies in Nigeria Change Agenda,” Obono-Obla drived home his points by enumerating the merits of anti graft agencies and need for the agencies to carry on their duty unbiased.

According to Obla, “We may be fair to say that despite all the antics of the corrupt minds to blackmail the chairman of the SPIP, the present administration’s effort to fight corruption is still ongoing to actualise its agenda. With the establishments of various anti-corruption agencies, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has done much to put in place strategies and polices to block loopholes and leakages through which unscrupulous officials use to siphon public funds”.

Abuja rail up for grabs as investors besiege Authority Idu Jude, Abuja In an effort to ensure ease of doing business and to operate an even business environment, the FCT administration, has revealed that private investors may soon take over the management of the just commissioned $ 823.5 million Abuja Light Rail system.

This is coming on the heels of stakeholders’ fears that the rail system may be grounded like the old railway system in the country, considering that government do not have the requisite prudence to manage profitable ventures.

Speaking on the interest of private investors on the project, the Federal Capital Territory Secretary in charge of transportation, Kayode Opeifa said the coming on board of the investors will free government of the burden and huge cost of running the rail system which is both difficult to build and manage.

Over N1bn water bill not settled in Bauchi - BSWCS

Samuel Luka, Bauchi The Managing Director of Bauchi State Water and Sewage Corporation (BSWSC), Engineer Aliyu Aminu Gital has disclosed that over one billion Naira bills of water consumed in the state has not been paid by the consumers.

Gital who dropped this hint at a meeting between USAID funded WASH coordination project (WCP), Network of Society for Water and Sanitation (NEWSAN) and the management of BSWSC in Bauchi yesterday added that as a result of the on-going reforms, the body has signed an MOU with civil society organizations (CSOs) to help galvanize public support for the corporations.

He said that, of the 22,000 water consumers in its register, only about Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman (left) presenting a plaque to the Chairman of Vanguard Media 1020 customers often settled their monthly bills.

Limited, Sam Amuka-Pemu, during her visit to Vanguard Newspaper head office in Lagos... on Tuesday.

I will restructure Plateau, end insecurity, if ... - JT Useni A retired Lt. General in the Nigerian Army, Jeremiah Timbut Useni, has said he will restructure Plateau State, end insecurity, if elected governor of Plateau in the coming general election in 2019.

Useni was speaking in Abuja after he submitted his expression of interest and nomination form, at the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), National Secretariat, Wadata House, Abuja on

Wednesday.

The battle for the number one seat in Plateau has begun with candidates submitting their nomination forms, preparing for the contest ahead.

Useni, who is also a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, is promising to provide free education, boost Agriculture and attract foreign investors in the State.

Some of his supporters described the General as a man

whom the cap fits.

For now, about 16 aspirants of the PDP have collected nomination forms for the party’s governorship seat.

They however, called on the party leadership to ensure credible governorship primaries.

If nominated, Jeremiah Useni may be facing Governor Simon Lalong who is for now the only aspirant seeking re-election under the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Dismissed military officers, others arrested for diverting N13m goods Joy Anyim, Lagos Two dismissed military personnel and three others who specialised in diverting trucks loaded with goods on highways were on Wednesday paraded by the Lagos State Police Command.

The suspect -Monday Ayele 42, Esowanne Emeka 30, Moses Johnson 25 (a dismissed soldier), Akintola Abiodun 25 (dismissed Airforce personnel) and Osegbu Chidi 30 (a fake soldier) - met their waterloo when they attempted to divert a kano State bound truck laden with groundnut oil valued at over N13 million.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Imohimi Edgal who briefed journalists on the activities of the gang disclosed that the suspects were arrested last Sunday.

Speaking on how the gang members were arrested, Edgal said, “On the aforementioned date, at about 8pm, a Sterling truck with registration number LSR266-XW, laden with groundnut oil valued at N13,250.000.00 was hijacked by a five man gang of highway robbers at Epe expressway.

“They stopped the Kano State bound truck close to Ijebu Ode and pushed the conductor and the driver out of the vehicle. However, as they were trekking towards Epe-Lagos, they came across a policeman and narrated their ordeal to him”.

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Mobile lines subscribers drop to 161.4m in July – NCC Ladesope Ladelokun

L-R: Director of Accounts, Lagos State Ministry of Establishments,Training and Pensions (ETP), Mr. Deji Koko; Permanent Secretary, ETP, Mrs. Rhoda Ayinde; President, Joint Negotiating Council, Lagos State, Comrade Falade Rasaq and Lagos State Commissioner for ETP, Dr. Akintola Benson-Oke, during a capacity building workshop tagged: Trade Unionism, Collective Bargaining, And Leadership For Trade Union Leaders in Lagos.

NCDMB to boosts local content in oil sector with $200m Mathew Dadiya The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) have raised $200 million to facilitate local content development in the oil sector.

The board had the statutory mandate of promoting Nigeria content development, especially in the oil and gas sector.

Mr. Naboth Onyesoh, the

NCDMB Manager, Corporate Communications, said the fund was contributed by the stakeholders.

No More Ranting Online For Free - Get Paid To Do What You Normally Do Online The fund, called “Nigeria Content Intervention Fund (NCIF)’’, was launched in 2018 with various applications for the loan already received.

“The stakeholders are the various oil and gas servicing firms operating

in Nigeria.

“The fund which has been deposited with the Bank of Industry (BOI) for proper management is meant to be disbursed as loans to enable firms acquire platforms.

“The ideology behind the fund is to facilitate local content development to bolster facility ownership in the multibillion naira businesses that happen to be the life wire of the Nigerian economy.

“The process of getting the

loan is made seamless for all the stakeholders with only local contractors in the oil and gas that are non-contributory beneficiaries of the NCIF,’’ Onyesoh said.

He said that LADOL and STARZ were two firms that benefited from the former regime of the fund.

Onyesoh said that the organisation would soon look at the pool of applications for the fund, with a view to drawing up list of beneficiaries for fund disbursement.

First Bank supports educational sector with FirstEdu services Motolani Oseni First Bank of Nigeria has announced educational solution FirstEdu product, which has been designed to support schools to meet their medium and long-term goals for growth and improvement.

The bank’s Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications, Folake AniMumuney, in a statement said that that the FirstEdu product includes FirstEdu portal and FirstEdu loan which is targeted at private nursery, primary, secondary and A-level schools to provide access to flexible funding, replace old furniture and equipment as well as refurbish dilapidated buildings and classroom blocks.

“With this product, school owners/proprietors can stay ahead of competition in providing educational services and support to the target population by maintaining acceptable standard infrastructure at all times.

“The product enables customers to access up to N20 million facility with no tangible collateral apart from domiciliation of school fees account with the bank.

“This reduces the cost of borrowing to the customer and eliminates the challenges posed by the provision of additional demanding collaterals.

“In addition, FirstEdu portal is a robust web-based enterprise portal that enables educational institutions (private nursery, primary, secondary, A-level

schools and tertiary institutions) manage academic, administrative, professional, logistics and payment challenges.

“The basis for its robustness is to take the stress of logistics and payment challenges off schools as they focus on meeting the year-long and medium-term objectives of their school(s),” she said.

Ani-Mumuney said that the product features and benefits included e-learning, virtual library and facilitation of exchange programmes with foreign educational institutions, academic and student events/time-table/ calendar management.

Others include school fees payment via the internet, online information and result checking, interactive community forum

between students and teachers.

It also affords applicants the opportunity of enrolling from the comfort of their homes or any location around the world without licensing, installation and maintenance cost and plugs avenues for revenue leakages amongst others.

Abiodun Famuyiwa, the Group Head, Products and Marketing Support, was quoted as saying that with FirstEdu, private schools across the various levels of education in Nigeria had the right tool to boost their businesses to their desired level.

He urged customers and stakeholders to visit any FirstBank branch or make contact via the various social media channels for further information on the product.

Mobile telephone lines subscribers in Nigeria have declined to 161.4 million in July from 162.30 million in June, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) latest data revealed.

NCC in its monthly subscriber’s operator data posted on its website on Wednesday, explained that the new active mobile lines figure at the end of July showed that subscribers decreased by 881,586.

Also the Mobile Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) for active mobile lines in July was 125,444 as against 217,566 in June, a decrease of 92,122.

The report said the number of fixed wired/wireless for active mobile lines in July was 140,582 compared to June, which had 140,627 lines, indicating a decrease of 45 lines.

According to NCC, the number of VoiceOver Internet Protocol (VOIP) was 101,131 in July compared with 97,941 recorded in June, recording an increase of 3,190.

It also revealed that Teledensity reduced by 0.69 in July to 115.57 as against 116.26 in June.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Teledensity is the number of telephone connections for every 100 individuals living within an area and it varies widely across the country.

NCC also said the number of connected lines in July stood at 238.21 million as against 239.33 million in June, a decrease of 1.12 million.

The CDMA for connected lines for July was 246,126 as against 3.58 million in June, a decrease of 3.33 million, the subscribers’ data revealed.

The report said the number of fixed wired/wireless for connected lines in July was 350,998 compared to June that had 350,644, an increase of 354 lines.

NSE: Equity transactions relapse as market capitalisation dips by N19bn Equity transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday reversed to the negative trend after appreciating for one day as market capitalisation depreciated by N19 billion.

The market capitalisation decreased by 1.49 per cent to close lower at N12.563 trillion from the N12.753 trillion recorded on Tuesday.

Commenting, Mr Fakrogha Charles of Stockbroker, Foresight Securities and Investment Ltd., said that the depreciation was as a result of price losses recorded by major stocks in the market.

Charles also said that profit taking by most investors was another factor that contributed to the depreciation.

Meanwhile, the All-Share Index, which opened at 34,933.68, dropped by 519.31 points or1.49 per cent to close at 34,414.37.

Seplat Oil led the losers’ chart by N47 to close at N603 per share.

Dangote Cement depreciated by N7 to close at N223 per share, while Stanbic IBTC lost 1k to close at N47 per share.

FlourMill dipped by 8k to close at N21.2, while ETI fell by 45k to close at N19.55 per share.

On the other hand, Forte Oil and International Breweries led the gainers’ chart by N1 each to close at N20 and N33 per share respectively.

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NNPC disowns social media recruitment exercise Idu Jude, Abuja Again the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disowned a recruitment advertisement currently trending in the social media, stating that such is the handiwork of hoodlums.

This is not the first time NNPC is enmeshed in this kind of social job recruitment saga.

The advertisement, set in NNPC’s corporate colour with its logo and a corporate picture, invites candidates with background in Sciences, Engineering, Business/Finance,

Social Sciences, Arts/Humanities as well as Medical/Health Sciences, to apply, this time, without stating any required educational attainments of prospects, unlike in the past wherein the scam advert had listed the following as requirements for qualification, Master’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Higher National Diploma (HND) and National Diploma.

The NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, on Wednesday described the advertisement as phoney, advising unsuspecting members of the public to be wary of the scam.

The corporation said the recruitment announcement or invitation to recruitment interview of this nature appearing intermittently in the social media should be discountenanced, as NNPC was not carrying out any recruitment exercise now.

The National Oil Company dissociated itself from the fake e-mail address to which unsuspecting prospects were asked to direct their Curriculum Vitae in the placement advert.

NNPC reminded job seekers to note the antics of scammers who deploy, on social media platforms, such communication

strategies as text messages, vacancy announcements and forged letters inviting them for non-existing job interviews, saying they are tricks to extort money from them.

NNPC cautioned that any applicant who entertained such invitations would have himself or herself to blame, encouraging those who had already fallen victims to volunteer information to the law enforcement agencies.

The corporation stated that as an equal opportunity going concern, it would, as usual, advertise at appropriate time, vacancies in the corporation through the national dailies.

Lagos, brewers to boost Nigeria’s tourism with beer festival Mutiat Alli In a bid to consolidate on the gains of the economic and tourism capability garnered at the maiden edition, Lagos State in partnership with beer brewers in the country are set to excite fun loving Lagosians by hosting the second edition of the Nigeria Beer Festival from September 25 to October 1, 2018.

As part of the efforts to achieve a seamless flow of event, the State government is collaborating with beer brewers in the country and their counterparts across the globe to create maximum excitement during the week-long fiesta that will climax with the Independence Day Mega

Concert to commemorate Nigeria’s independence.

The festival, which promises to propagate responsible drinking among drinking-age (which is 18 years and above) consumers at all its touch points, will be held at the Waterfront Bar Beach grounds,EkoAtlantic to give it a carnival atmosphere.

Not a few analysts agree that Nigeria beer industry, is growing with the recent investment of over 250 million US Dollars by International Breweries Plc, a member of ABInBev. This huge investment is seen as capable of launching the company as a serious contender which will likely control a larger chunk of the market share in the future.

EEDC metered customers hit 190,000 in August Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has said between January to August, 2018, that the company has metered about 50,000 electricity customers across its franchise area with smart prepaid meters, bringing the total number of its prepaid customers to about 190,000.

This was made known to newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday by the Head of Communications, EEDC, Mr. Emeka Ezeh.

Ezeh reiterated its commitment to meter its customers, saying that it is in its best interest to do so.

According to him, our metering department is working assiduously to meter as many customers as possible.

We have committed both human and financial resources to ensure the success of this project “It is an aspect of our operation which we believe so much in; and these meters as well as its installation are

delivered to our customers at no cost”.

Ezeh appealed to customers to be patient and also appreciate the efforts made in the provision of meters, stressing that metering is a process, and there is no way all customers can be metered at the same time.

“With the wide metering gap which we inherited, all we ask for is patience and understanding from our customers”. Metering is our commitment and we are on course.

Another area where we are experience challenge is in the area of meter bypass. We appeal to those customers bypassing their meter to desist from such, as it impacts negatively in our operation.

“There is a high prevalence of meter bypass within our network and that is a source of concern for us as a business”.

EEDC therefore appeal to those customers with information on anyone engaging in meter bypass or energy theft to report such person(s) using the Whistle blowing line, which is: 084 700 110.

The company, which could not participate in the Beer Festival last year, is however set for a big outing this year.

Other companies that graced the event last year include brewing giants Nigerian Breweries Plc and Guinness Nigeria Plc. Others include Campari and lots of entertainment providers.

The organisers of the Nigeria Beer Festival, On and One Events (001) Limited, said that the Lagos State government, which is passionate about tourism, will provide massive institutional support, particularly security, emergency response and related logistics.

According to the organisers, part of the build-up to this year’s event will include a Beer Colloquium to find the nexus between the beverage, culture and entertainment.

Akinola Oluwaleimu, General Manager of 001, will see Nigeria enrol into the league of Beer Festivals

around the world, and boost the country’s tourism opportunities.

“Nigeria Beer Festival will be a carnival week of entertainment, sales and marketing and a gathering of the largest community of beer consumers from across the country and beyond with economic value for the brands and the economy at large,” he assured.

Oluwaleimu was also emphatic that partners of the forthcoming Nigeria Beer Festival are assured of worldstandard facilities as the organisers of the event have partnered with reputable and qualified architects from Europe to design modular stands to fit into any shape or style desired by exhibitors.

He added that Governor AkinwunmiAmbode is expected to close the festival during the Independence Day Mega Concert that will parade an array of A-list Nigerian artistes,cultural spectacle and a display of an eye-popping fireworks.

Copyright commission warns against piracy, summon MD Hashtronics Satellite Yakubu Salisu, Kano The Director of Enforcement, Nigerian Copy Right Commission Mr. Augustine Alewo Amodu, has warned that the commission would spare no one caught in the act of piracy as new strategies to check mate the activities of Pirates across the country have been adopted to put an end to the menace.

Augustine made this known in Kano on Tuesday during a sensitization and audit visit for stakeholders in the state.

He described Piracy as a cancar-worm that has eaten so deeply into the fabric of the Nation’s economy, which has forced many legitimate business owners out of business, and has caused great loss to those who manage to survive, a trend he said the commission under the leadership of its Director General, Mr. Afam Ezekude is determined to curtail.

Amodu disclosed that the enforcement team during its visit to Hashtronics Satellite LTD, discovered that the broadcasting company engaged in illegal broadcasting using illegal decoders such as Canal Plus, Sky Sports, Bein Sports as well as Strong Decoders which give them conditional access to steal EPL, EUFA, and LALIGA matches to their subscribers.

Amodu noted that the visit, was prompted by a letter of petition the commission received from Multi-Choice LTD that Harstronics engages in rebroadcasting of its programs without permission.

“We came here today to see for ourselves after a Letter of Complaint we received from multi-choice, that their exclusive right is been violated by Hashtronics.

We have been to their broadcasting rooms and we have seen the illegal decoders they use to gain access to other people’s programs.

It’s unfortunate that the Manager, Mrs. Glory Egharevbe was not able to provide us with any documents from either NBC or MultiChoice that grants them permission for their operations.

We have served them a letter demanding that, the Managing Director (MD) reports to our Abuja office next Monday with all necessary documents to back his mode of operations, failure to do that, will leave us with no choice but to seal up the place” Furthermore, Augustine, said, the commission would do all within its jurisdictions to protect creativity in the country which is one of the president Muhammadu Buhari’s priority, that is, economy diversification and creating enabling environment for legitimate businesses to thrive would lead to economic boost.

L-R: Alero Ayida-Otobo, Board Member, Teach for Nigeria; Feyi Ojugo, Head of Teaching and Administration, Greensprings School; Lolade Sasore, Head, Communications and Knowledge Engagement, FBNQuest Merchant Bank; Folawe Omikunle, CEO, Teach for Nigeria and Gbenga Oyebode, Chairman, Teach for Nigeria at the Teach for Nigeria 2018 Fellows Graduation which took place in Lagos.

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How Oshiomhole can succeed as APC chairman - Kao’je Bala Kao’je is a former Minister of Sports. He is confident that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has what it takes to move the party forward, but he however advised him to get the right advisers with deep knowledge in Nigerian politics. In an interview with Select Journalists in Abuja, the former PDP National Treasurer said it will be difficult for any party to defeat the APC in the 2019 polls. MATHEW DADIYA was there for The Daily Times.

Recently, your party the APC conducted its national convention, considering your experience in politics, how would you describe the outcome?

The convention can be said to have gone quite well, in the sense that it started and ended without rancour as some people had expected. They thought that what happened during the PDP convention in 2015 where a number of stakeholders walked out of the Eagle Square would happen, but that didn’t happen. Many people had thought that on that day, APC was going to break, but far from it, the party is now stronger and more formidable. A lot of people were really disappointed because there is a level of cohesion within the APC and because of that, a number of people who are APC followers have seen the light that there is possibility for negotiation with some members of the n-PDP so as to settle the rift, so that the party can wax stronger to prepare itself for the 2019 general elections.

The convention went smoothly, not without hitches though, but you could see that there were some noticeable errors with the way the convention was arranged. Time was not taken into consideration, because in planning, you have to plan in such a way that where you need to spend five hours, you will spend just three hours and go. But in the case of the last convention, the planning was not good.

I know Oshiomhole has what it takes to put things together to move the party forward. And I know that he has a serious task ahead of him, because of this task one tree cannot make a forest, he needs to have the right people around him, he needs to have some advisers who are experienced from all the parts of the country, to give him advice on various aspect of ruling the party.

That will help him a lot in knowing what exactly is going on, because all the advisers will be doing their homework, and also draw some agenda for him to use in the interest of the party and to manage it.

But he has to be very careful, he shouldn’t be in haste to select the right kind of people who will advise him on politics, relationship with the National Assembly, the governors, because many of these things need to be planned. There must be somebody who has idea on new things to do in

led to what Bubba has done. Anyway, it has happened, perhaps because the President didn’t take advise of people around him, or those around him didn’t advise him in that direction, we don’t know. Though, our new chairman has done everything necessary to bring Galadima back to the APC but he refused, so for me the party has done what it ought to have done with regards to aggrieved members like the rAPC leader.

But Adams Oshiomhole needs to intensify efforts, see how we can have reasonable percentage of the aggrieved members to remain in APC and forget the issue of rAPC.

Oshiomhole

terms of planning the next action to be taken by a leader, and that is why I think it is important for Oshiomhole to look for the right kind of people with experience, political and managerial and otherwise to assist him so he can be able to achieve the mandate given to him of solidifying the party, and preparing for 2019 elections, I believe he will be able to do it. ********The polity is barraged with gale of defections, but the most concern was the formation of a faction out of the ruling party

by Buba Galadima, what is the implication of that for the APC as the 2019 elections get closer?

People have been wondering why things have become what they are now, especially in the relationship between Mr. President and Buba Galadima, because everyone knows the two of them to be good paddies in politics, but now everyone has moved on his own. I think most of these things can be avoided. Human beings are very fallible, no matter what happens, as a leader you need to endure and look at the weight of people around you, do what you can to service those people. It was failure to attend to their needs that created this kind of misunderstanding that

I know Oshiomhole has what it takes to put things together to move the party forward. And I know that he has a serious task ahead of him, because of this task one tree cannot make a forest, he needs to have the right people around him...

You chaired the APC state congress in Nasarawa State and was adjudged as one of the most peaceful congresses, what was the secret behind that success?

The credit goes to the governor of Nasarawa State, Tanko Almakura. I must say he performed credibly in terms of the way he managed the election activities, Tanko carries all his politicians along, when I spoke to some stakeholders, they were all happy because the governor didn’t abandon them. Before the convention he held series of meetings, and townhall meetings with the people. He worked with former senators, House of Representatives members, all former ministers and current ones, he virtually met with everybody who has a say, who is a stakeholder in Nasarawa before the convention, they shared ideas among themselves and they were able to agree that they will maintain the structure, except for those who have left the party or have died.

We did what we are supposed to do, and there has not been any petition so far. The governor did well, I hope all stakeholders will also learn from him, doing things that will make the people have more love for the party. There is nothing as sweet as knowing your leader cares for you, if the leader doesn’t create that kind of atmosphere, there will be a gap, and that is a problem. Some leaders you can’t get access to them, so they need to change the way they do things.

You were recently honored with an award in the United Kingdom, what is the significance to your career?

I am actually a full time

professional builder; people might know me more through politics; so I decided to go international.

I am a member of Association of Chattered Building Engineers in the UK. I have been with them for over 10years, and every year, I attend their conference, it is a must, and other technical seminars that are organised by the association, I was a member before it became a chattered body and I still enjoy my membership. That award is an award that enables me to practice in the UK. I can practice in the UK anytime, I have partners there and access to building construction as it is done in the UK. It means my level of understanding of building is far ahead of what is practiced here in the country. That is the essence I moved out of the country to seek more knowledge, share knowledge with people in the profession and I enjoy it.

President Buhari has spent over three years in power, how will you assess his performance generally?

When I came into APC, I came not directly initially because before the election, everybody knows that the PDP was unfair to me, I felt that I cannot just go without fighting back, we have to take the PDP to court because what they did was unethical. We looked at the future of Nigeria and realised that if something was not done to change the leadership of the country it will be catastrophic, and some of us left immediately to APC, while some stayed back in the PDP and worked for the victory of APC. I didn’t hide my support and it was clear that I supported Buhari.

President Muhammadu Buhari has done well and deserved a second term to be able to complete the good work he has started, especially on infrastructural development across the six geopolitical zones of the country. One cannot in a very complex society like ours, satisfy all the people. But I believe Buhari did well to sanitise the economy, such that the level of stealing, corruption or whatever they call it has been reduced to its barest level.

But I will still point out areas the President need to do more, but he is doing well in terms of bringing the economy back on track, and redeeming our image amongst the comity of nations.

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FCTA meat consumption and state of Bwari Abattoir Idu Jude, Abuja It was a busy day for Aliyu Ibrahim, a butcher at Bwari abattoir in the Federal Capital Territory. He worked on Sallah day, a day Muslims were celebrating their annual ram sacrificing festival.

With his trousers rolled up, he walked barefooted on a ground covered by sooth from burnt tyres at Bwari Abattoir situated along Kaduna-Jere express road, where vehicle tyres are used to singe the hair of slaughtered cows.

Roaming up and down, and with his hands full, shuttling between a dead cow that was being butchered and another one that has just been slaughtered, Ibrahim brought out a wrap of Indian hemp, looking for a lighter to light it up.

As he puffed grey smoke from the hemp into the air; Ibrahim used a curvy knife to slice through a used tyre, which he would later set alight to burn a lifeless cow lying in the sooth opposite a heap of black ashes where countless animals had been burnt in the past years.

“Oga abeg make dem bring more tyres to burn this cow finish,” he told a customer, who had brought a cow for slaughter. And without minding the unsanitary state of the abattoir and the environment, he jovially handled everything with dexterity.

According to Ibrahim, the Area Council despite the daily tax it collects from the abattoir has neglected it.

“No be Area Council? And na dem dey collect money.

Every cow, we pay N200 to the Council and dem no repair am,” he said.

Having spent more than 10 years on the job, he has mastery of everything; from taming angry cow to bringing down the beast on its back to slaughtering it.

No windows, no doors, no water supply, Bwari Abattoir is an eyesore.

Despite an intermittent rainfall that characterizes the day, he and Sunusi, another butcher, carry on with their deboning of dead animals while a number of customers wait for them −some in their cars; others take shelter in the dilapidated corner of the slaughter house. Water drips from several openings on the roof, but the butchers careless.

The abattoir lacks the major features of a modern slaughter house - no potable water supply, no electricity, no concrete road, no transportation and no provision for waste disposal, it is yet a beehive of activities every day.

The abattoir was constructed more than 15 years ago by the Bwari Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

It has two changing rooms which are not being used, the ceilings and walls of the building are covered by soothes that have settled there over the years. The ceilings are broken, a sign of years of neglect.

It has no window fittings, no doors for the three entrances – none among the butchers know what or who removed all the windows and doors of the slaughter house.

Even the inscription on the side of the building showing the date of the commission has faded. The well, the only source of water at the abattoir has sufficient water only during the rainy season. During the dry season, shortage of water compels butchers to resort to the use of waters gotten from Mairuwa (water vendors).

Yet the dilapidated slaughter house is the only one that serves the entire Bwari community and environs like Dutse, Kuduru, Garam, Barangoni, Sabon Bwari, Ushafa.

Approximately, a total of 7,300 cattle are slaughtered in a year at the abattoir while the Area Council rakes in about N1,460,000 as tax from slaughtered cows alone.

There is no sign that the abattoir is under any supervision from the Area Council, but authorities of the Area Council collect N200 as tax on each cow slaughtered in the slaughter house every day.

Malik, another butcher at the slaughter house, who lamented the deplorable state of the facility, noted that nothing has been done by successive administrations at the Area Council to improve the house since it was first opened to public use.

Pointing to a well just behind the building, he said the well was dug when the building was constructed but was quick to add that once dry season sets in, the level of water in the well reduces.

This, according to him, explains why they (butchers) use dirty water to wash meat in spite of the health risks.

Unlike other slaughter houses in developed countries where cows and other animals are transported

The filthy state of Bwari abattoir mechanically, two long iron carriers are deployed by butchers at the Bwari abattoir to ferry them into the abattoir. There are no trolleys or any vehicles here.

When contacted on what his administration intends to do to uplift the slaughter house, Chairman of Bwari Area Council, Musa Dikko, neither answered calls to his mobile phone nor replied to the text message sent to the phone.

Bwari town is the headquarters of Bwari Area Council, one of the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It is home to the headquarters of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the Nigerian Law School, Federal Government Girls College, the Area Council Secretariat, Banks, Churches and a military barracks.

According to the 1999 Constitution, Local Governments are saddled with the responsibility of running abattoirs.

Unhygienic disposal of animal waste.

Each day those cows are slaughtered, there are no public health care workers and veterinary officials from the council to ascertain the status of the animals.

This, Times Metro gathered, allows a lot of unwholesome practices such as singe of hair of animal by fire and washing of meat with dirt by butchers who learnt the art locally.

The abattoir does not meet the minimum operating standards to guarantee food safety because there is currently no national legislation relating to abattoir operation in Nigeria.

Ibrahim with chunk of cow meat on Sallah day

Unhygienic disposals of wastes, as well as lack of treatment of waste and by products utilisation, are part of the reasons that the abattoir has posed a serious health risk. The whole house is surrounded with dirt majorly of animal byproducts, horns, hooves, bones and paunch contents, oozing offensive odour as flies roam freely.

An elderly man, “Maidunbu’ is always waiting with his long knife to sniff life out of the animals.

That is his beat at the abattoir. He is the slaughterer.

Times Metro witnessed the slaughtering of many animals at the abattoir without any public health officer giving a go-ahead, contrary to international best practices.

Once they are slaughtered, the fire made from used tyres awaits the dead animals.

According to American Public Health Association, unlicenced workers in unmonitored slaughter houses in developing countries (such as Ghana and Nigeria) are known to frequently use an open fire, set with scraps of automobile tires, to burn the hair of slaughtered goats and cattle before eating or cooking.

According to our discovery, the only source of water at the abattoir is surrounded by wastes even as water vendors besiege the brook to serve the abattoir.

The association said this approach “is a huge potential health risk,” because automobile tyres are made of chemicals and materials that when released into the environment under ambient conditions (like open fire burning), can release hazardous chemicals onto the meat and into the ambient environment.

Some examples of such pollutants, according to the association, are particulate matter, volatile organic compound (VOCs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Such chemicals or particulates, when released into the ambient air, may be inhaled or ingested, and could pose severe health hazards to the public or workers in and around the slaughter houses.

There are no face masks for the butchers when they are around the heavy smoke that billows from the fire they set on the animals on a daily basis.

Times Metro observed that the butchers seem unaware of the danger of working in a polluted environment or using vehicle tyres to burn dead animals. To them, it is faster and cost-effective to use vehicle tyres to remove hair from the animals than any other means.

“Na the tyre dey quick burn the cow and e dey burn am well,” said Malik.

But when Times Metro told them that there are health and environmental risks relating to using tyres, they simply said there is nothing they could do about it.

Inside the main building of the Bwari Slaughter House, some butchers were busy washing animals using a combination of dirty water, iron sponge and animal waste. In spite of this unhygienic practice, customers wait anxiously outside while some stand by the window not minding the offensive odour from the gutter nearby.

Because there are no vehicles, meat that are ready for market are hauled on the seat of motorcycles for transportation to Bwari market.

This is also a practice against public health as it exposes the meat and consumers to multiple infections.

Drug abuse One thing that features prominently at the abattoir among the butchers is an abuse of the drug. While many of butchers smoke Indian hemp freely, a number of them also take banned codeine which they claim help them to be able to confront their bloody task.

“See the kind of work we do; honestly, you must smoke ‘igbo’ (Indian hemp),’ said one of the butchers, as he raised his head from where he was carving up a cow meat.

When he is done cutting the meat, Aliu Ibrahim reaches for a small cellophane in the pocket of his trousers. He brings out a grass-like substance and loads it in a paper, wraps it and uses saliva to seal it before lighting it.

But as he smokes his hemp, another butcher brings out a small bottle that looks like a cough syrup with a white liquid content. He takes off the lid and gulps the content.

The abattoir is in a close proximity of a colony of scavengers known by the locals as ‘Mai bola’, who are notorious for taking all kinds of banned substances.

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When Ooni empowered the less privileged in Umuahia Esther Taiwo In furtherance of his commitment to putting smiles on faces of the less privileged in the society cutting across tribes, religion, and ethnicity among others, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has donated a vocational centre equipped with sewing machines, hair dryers, shoe and bag making machines, cobblery equipment, barbing and other equipment to So-Said Charity Home in Ubakala, Umuahia South Local Government, Abia State, through his Hopes Alive Initiative.

This was barely two weeks after the monarch donated a brand new home to an orphanage in Ibadan, Oyo State.

According to the Deputy Convener of Hopes Alive Initiative, Miss Temitope Adesegun, the Home has lacked a vocational centre for years since it was established 22 years ago, adding that the decision to put a structure for the rehabilitated members of the Home is to empower them so as to become useful to themselves and their immediate environment.

“Hopes Alive Initiative is cutting across boundaries just to empower people. His Imperial Majesty, Ooni Adeyeye is a wonderful father, a great motivator and selfless humanitarian, one whose love for humanity transcends across all tribes, races, religion, culture and whatever gender.

“I believe that God divinely created the Ooni for the less privileged to make them happy and live a fulfilled life. I would say we are in Abia State according to God’s directive who ordered our steps to be here for a very unique set of people created by God but abandoned by relatives. The Home is reforming this set of people through the founder who is doing a great job of impacting lives.

Our coming here is to add value to what she is doing by rehabilitating this set of people and in order to compliment her efforts, we decided to establish a vocational centre well equipped for training of these people after their rehabilitation process”, she said.

Welcoming the team to Umuahia, the Enyi Abia, Eze Raphael Mbagu, described the Ooni of Ife as a true humanitarian who has proved that Nigerians are one family and should not allow tribalism to tear them apart.

The Nonagenarian prayed for long life for the Ooni who was represented

by Oba Taofeek Oshunmakinde, the Obawure of Ife and his Emese who conveyed the Ooni’s staff of office to the

L-R: Mrs. Felicia Martins; Eze Raphael Mbagu; Miss Temitope Adesegun and Oba Taofeek Oshunmakinde and the Emese carrying the Ooni’s staff of office at the commissioning of the vocational centre donated by the Ooni in Umuahia, Abia State...recently

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He also urged well-meaning Nigerians to support the King in his humanitarian service by donating to the Hopes Alive Initiative’s selfless service to humanity, adding that those who listen to the cry of poor people will live long and obtain favour of God. Mrs. Felicia Martins, the CEO of So-Said Charity Homes with seven branches across the country, said the Home was established for the vulnerable persons on the street and has been operating for over 22 years to rescue those who had fallen on the way path.

According to her, the initial plan was to focus on mentally derailed people but later realised that not all persons roaming the streets are mentally ill but there are women with marital issues who are sent packing from their matrimonial homes, children who lost their way home, special children with syndromes, prostitutes, beggars and people with challenge in different areas.

She said over the years, the Home has focused on mentally ill persons and children with syndrome as well as those retired to the roads due to their challenges, adding that those are the group of people the Home rescues.

Mrs. Martins said over the years, the

Home has expanded through the help of philanthropists, and decided to train them before they go back to the society.

“One of the challenges we face is finance because we have given out ourselves to live for others and this requires money. What His Imperial Majesty has done today by coming to equip the empowerment centre is a laudable achievement because when my manager was struggling to build the centre, I was asking where are we going to get money to roof it talk less of equipping it. The place has been abandoned ever since then but the Ooni came through his team and roofed the place, plastered it, put the window, security door with burglary proof, ceiling fans and tiles everywhere. He turned it to a standard vocational centre with all the training equipments for different vocations”, she said.

Mrs. Martins stated further that working with the mentally derailed persons has not been easy and will never be easy as it takes the grace of God because she has severally been attacked by some of them who at times became violent.

She said the Ooni’s gesture shows a true humanitarian who has left himself for God to use devoid of tribalism, ethnicity or religion whose love knows

no bound and has made giving part of his life.

“My word for other well-meaning Nigerians is to show love. Let them know that Nigeria as a country is in need and giving is part of life. People are suffering out there and if everyone can emulate this kind of a King who has given himself to service of humanity, then the world will be a better place. It is a good thing to be blessed but people should realise that the purpose of being blessed is to give back to the society,” she added.

“What His Imperial Majesty has done today by coming to equip the empowerment centre is a laudable achievement ”.

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR SONNIE OBI CHAIRMAN, 2. MR JUDE ENEMUO VICE CHAIRMAN, 3. MR AYODELE OLAROYE - SECRETARY. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE AND ENSURE SECURITY OF LIVES AND PROPERTIES IN GOLF ROAD COMMUNITY. 2. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS IN THE COMMUNITY. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY.

PUBLIC NOTICE

INTERNATIONAL HAZARD ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL POINTS PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA

ADDRESSS ; 1, LASU-IBA ROAD, ISHERI, LAGOS THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MARSH JAMES OLAWALE - CHAIRMAN 2. MARSH ADETUNDUN ESTHER - SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1. THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS 2. TO FOSTER PEACE, UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG THE MEMBERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC 3. TO WORK WITH THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER AND ENCOURAGING MEMBERS TO COMPLY THE GOVERNMENT STANDARDS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, September 6, 2018 ASSOCIATION FOR PROGRESSIVE AND ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION IN NIGERIA Notice is hereby given to the general public that the above named Organization has applied for registration under part “C” of Companies and Allied Matters Act,1990.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1)Prof. Eze Charles-CHAIRMAN 2)Prof.Byron Maduewesi-SECRETARY 3)Prof.Idoko Constance Eberechukwuka.

4)Chika Maduewesi.

5)Dr Gift Uchenna Nwiyi.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To Promote Progressive and wholesome Education in Nigeria.

Any objection to the Registration should be Forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420,Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, MAITAMA ABUJA Within 28 Days of This Publication.

SIGNED : Prof. Eze Charles (Chairman)

THE ELEME CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, MINES AND AGRICULTURE This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF GOMBA OKANJE - PRESIDENT 2. CHIEF GREGORY OLLOR 3. HRH, EMERE TEKARA E. K. AKOBE 4. CHIEF MONDAY OSAROLLORWI 5. PRINCE MICHAEL EJIRE 6. ELDER ISREAL GOMBA ABBEY 7. HON EYINNA MATTHEW OSARONWAJI - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To promote business within eleme and it’s environs.

2. To protect and promote the interest of it’s members.

3. To co-ordinate business and trade activities within eleme and it’s environs.

Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi Street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

SIGNED: HON EYINNA MATTHEW OSARONWAJI

GARDEN OF THE CHOSEN REVIVAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL.

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ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS OF NIGERIA. Notice is hereby given to the general public that the above named Association has applied for registration under part “C” of Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

1)Prof. John Tabotndip- CHAIRMAN 2)Prof.Byron Maduewesi-SECRETARY 3)Dr.Chukwu Leonard Chinweuba 4)Ikenna Maduewesi 5)Dr.Princewill Egwuasi.

ETHANMERCY FOUNDATION This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part’ C’ of the companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. OHONSI AUSTIN OGBIDI - Chairman 2. OLATUNJI FISAYO FELIX - Secretary 3. AGWU MARTIN.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1)To promote Unity and Progress among teachers in Tertiary Institutions

AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. To give hope to the hopeless.

Any objection to the Registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420,Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, MAITAMA, ABUJA Within 28 DAYS of This Publication.

SIGNED : Prof. John Tabotndip (Chairman)

Life changing christ evangelical international ministry The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990 1. Pastor Babatunde Johnson Alani - Chairman 2. Pastor Bamgbose Micheal Adebayo - Vice Chairman 3. Akintokun Adenike Omowunmi - Secretary 4. Onifade Kehinde - member 5. Babatunde Kafilat Bolanle - Member 6. Omoboriowo Elijah AIMS 1) To preach and proclaim the gospel of our lord jesus christ 2) To use the “ Holy bible” to promote love, unity, and peace to all mankind.

3) To assist and relieve poverty and suffering of our fellow mankind 4) To undertake benevolent services for the benefit of the community and all those to whom such services will be of help either within the country or worldwide.

OBJECTIVES. 1) We shall acquire “ property” and develop to our own standard for the purpose of proclaiming, worshipping,and praising the almighty.

2) We shall preach the gospel from city to city as well as worldwide by EVANGELISM. Reference to section 1 of life changing christ evangelical mission.

3) We shall form a musical group i.e a well organised choir titled “ The Life Changing voices” and use such songs to spread the message of our lord jesus by modelling it on songs of praise.

4) We shall set up an educational commitee to be responsible for educating and publishing magazines, leaflet, literatures,which are incidental to our works and beneficial to all mankind within the community and worldwide .

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication SECRETARY

ENERGETIC BROTHERS SOCIAL CLUB OF NIGERIA

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990

TRUSTEES:1)ADEYI SUNDAY WEALTH - President.

(2) OGALA JOYCE - Vice President (3)AMEH GABRIEL.- Secretary.

THE TRUSTEE ARE: 1. Ifeanyichukwu Innocent Kelechi 2. Okafor Obinna 3. Okolie Peter 4. Odenigbo Stanley Okwuchukwu 5. Ezeh Daniel Chinedu

AimsTo preach the word of God through out the world. To win souls for Jesus Christ.

Classified

Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi Street Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

SIGNED; CHAIRMAN

OLU’S FOUNDATION The General public is hereby notified that the above named Foundation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for the Amendment of Trustees Constitution under Article 12. due to Addition f Trustee members under Part “C” of Companies and Allied Matters Act No 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Abiodun Adedapo Oluseun 2. Abiodun Adesola Oluseye 3. Abiodun Oluseun Oluseyi Lamissa 4. Abiodun Oluwatobi.

ADDED TRUSTEES ARE 1. MR Adetilewa Adebajo 2. Mr Kayode Odukoya 3. Mr Oye Hassan - Odukale 4. Mr Segun Fagboyegun Any objection to the application should be forwarded to the registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this Publication.

Signed Secretary

AMOUR ET FIDES FOUNDATION The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990 Trustees Are: 1) Engr. Augustine Obi - Chairman 2) Barr. Walter Ugwuozor - Secretary 3) Kenechukwu Nwosu - Financial Secretary 4) Onyedikachi Enebechi - Publicity/Diaspora Rep. 5) Tochukwu Nwosu - Treasurer Aims & Objectives 1. To Help Bring Up Role Models and Quality Leaders by Encouraging Culture of Academic Excellence Among Students 2. To Give Back to the Society by Financially Supporting the Less Privileged Children in the Society 3. To Unify Members by Working Towards Achievement of Common Goals and Greater Future Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication

AIM AND OBJECTIVE To foster unity amongst members.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication

Signed :Secretary

Signed Secretary.

THE GARDEN OF LIGHT CHRIST EVANGELICAL CHURCH.

DIVINE SUNLIGHT INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

EZIOYIAMAKA FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA.

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Prophet Stephen Mbah – Chairman 2. Evangelist Mary Onwuchekwa – Secretary 3. Donatus Enyeribe Nji- Member 4. Engr. Nnanna Livingston Ojigwe - Member

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AHIAOGU, CHIGOZIE (Chaiman).

2. NWOKE, ALOYSIUS C. (Secretary).

3. UKWUEG EDMOND UCHENNA. 4. ORJI, NONSO.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the unsaved generation .

2. To evangelise and win souls for God’s kingdom 3. To go on missions worldwide.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS 2. TO OFFER FINANCIAL AND MORAL SUPPORT TO ITS MEMBERS

Trustees: 1. REV. (MRS) AKINTUNDE ESTHER ADERINTO - GENERAL OVERSEER 2) PASTOR AKINTUNDE SOLOMON OLAGOKE 3) ELDER OWOLABI DANIEL OMOLADE 4) EVANG. AKINTUNDE MICHAEL AKINWUMI - SECRETARY 5) DEACON OWOLABI GBENGA 6) EVANG. AKINTUNDE SIMEON OLATUNDE. AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD. Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication Signed Secretary.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed Mrs Chidinma Ojigwe

AKAEZE IJEOMA

EVOLVE WOMAN AFRICA FOUNDATION The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990 TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Mr Tunde David Akinsoyinu “ Chairman 2. Ms Tosan Edun – Secretary 3. Mrs Violet Nath-Okodugha – Member 4. Mr Charles Edobor lzogie Uwagbai- Member AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To increase the awareness about social problems women face to women between the ages 14 - 25 years.

2. To advocate for the holistic empowerment of women in formal education, career development, health and emotional wellness, and governance.

3. To develop sustainable platforms for empowerment of women through skill acquisition and education in areas listed above.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed Barr. Oluwasiji Akinsoyinu

I formerly known and addressed as OKONKWO IJEOMA LAWRETTA ,now wish to be known and as AKAEZE IJEOMA LAWRETTA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME /CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I MRS FOLAKEMI AINA ODULATE is the same person bearing MRS AMODU FOLAKEMI AINA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS AMODU FOLAKEMI AINA. All former document remain valid, general public kindly please take note.

MBAGWU GLORIA

I formerly known and addressed as EZENWA GLORIA IFUNANYA now wish to be known and addressed as MBAGWU GLORIA. All former documents remain valid. General public kindly please take note.

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

This is to inform the general public of loss of ORIGINAL LAND DOCUMENTS. The location of the land is AGU-ISI, EKULU EMENE, Registered as No 62/62/374 at the Land Registry Enugu, belonging to OKAFOR BASIL. All effort of trace the said document has proved abortive.

If found please contact the Ministry of Lands and Urban Development.

Rokaire James I formerly known and addressed as Rokaire James Agere Now wish to be known and addressed as Rokaire James Onowhowhoakpo. All former document remain valid, general public kindly please take note.

ADEBAYO OLUWABUSAYO

I formerly known and addressed as ADEBAYO OLUWABUSAYO TITILAYO Now wish to be known and addressed as ADEBAYO OLUWABUSAYO CHRISTIANA. All former document remain valid, general public kindly please take note.

Signed: Trustees

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed IKENNA OKU SOLICITOR.

OKERE ANDRE

I formerly known and addressed as OKERE INNOCENT CHINONSO, now wish to be known and addressed as OKERE ANDRE CHINONSO. All former document remain valid.

General public should please take note.

Atoyebi Wasiu

I formerly known and addressed as Ojo Ayobami Sunday Now wish to be known and addressed as Atoyebi Wasiu Akanni. All former document remain valid, general public kindly please take note.

Michael Mary

l formerly known and addressed as Olujimi Omolayo Mary Now wish to be known and addressed as Michael Mary Omolayo. All former document remain valid, general public kindly please take note.

Adeyoriju Esther

l formerly known and addressed as Ajayi Esther Monisola Now wish to be known and addressed as Adeyoriju Esther Monisola.

All former document remain valid, general public kindly please take note

Oguntuase Anuoluwapo

l formerly known and addressed as Fayemi Anuoluwapo Mary Now wish to be known and addressed as Oguntuase Anuoluwapo Mary.

All former document remain valid, general public kindly please take note.

ADESINA ABOSEDE I formerly known and addressed as ADESINA SARAH ADETAYO, now wish to be known and addressed as ADESINA ABOSEDE ADETAYO. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

Classified ADDITION OF NAME

That I was formerly known and addressed as VALERIA OBETA, that I now wish to add ENECHI to my former name that I now wish to be known and addressed as VALERIA OBETTA ENECHI. But my Nat. I.D. was wrongly written as “OBETA”. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take notes.

SAHEED OLAWALE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YINUSA SAHEED ADEYEMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YINUS SAHEED OLAWALE.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

ADEDIRAN TAJUDEEN

ADDITION OF NAME

That I was formerly known and addressed as WILLIAMS EJIKEME, that I now wish to add OGBUKE to my former name that I now wish to be known and addressed as WILLIAMS EJIKEME OGBUKE. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take notes.

SAMUEL ESTHER

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALABA ESTHER OLUFUNMILAYO OLUSILE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAMUEL ESTHER OLUSILE.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

EKIRIGWE IJAJA

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to certify and confirm that CHUKWUMEDORO FAVOUR NWAMDI, CHUKWUMEDORO FAVOUR NNAMDI and OKORIE FAVOUR NNAMDI refers as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed asOKORIE FAVOUR NNAMDI. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

ADEKANBI ABIOLA

Formerly known and addressed as ADENEKAN ABIOLA ABGAIL. Now wish to be known and addressed as ADEKANBI ABIOLA ABIGAIL.All former documents remain valid, WEMA BANK and General public take note.

ADEBAYO MOSES

Formerly known and addressed as ADEDIRAN TAJUDEEN Now wish to be known and addressed as ADEDIRAN TAJUDEEN BIOLA.All former documents remain valid General public and Authority concerned please take note

Formerly known and addressed as OTOR GABRIEL ONAH,25/12/1992 Now wish to be known and addressed as EKIRIGWE IJAJA EMMANUEL,25/12/1994.All former documents remain valid General public and Authority concerned please take note.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHOKOYA MOSES SEYIFUNMI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBAYO MOSES OLUWADAMILARE .ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS GLORIA EJIRO

ALBERT EDOM I, formerly known and addressed as ABANG EDOM ABENG now wish to be known and addressed as ALBERT EDOM ABENG. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as HASSAN FADHILAT ADENIKE now wish to be known and addressed as HASSAN –AJISAFE FADHILAT ADENIKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

CORRECTION OF NAME

CORRECTION OF NAME/BIRTH DATE

formerly known and addressed as MISS GLORIA EJIRO ESIAGBORHO now wish to be known and addressed as MRS GLORIA EJIRO LIVWELLANAMONYE. And that my name was wrongly written as GLORIA EJIRO LIVWELL-ANAMOAYE instead of GLORIA EJIRO LIVWELL-ANAMONYE. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note CORRECTION/CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to certify and confirm that my name was wrongly written as OGARAKU ALPHONUSUS ABUCHI on my Drivers’ License. I am also the same person as OGARAKU ALPHONSUS ABUCHI and OGARAKU ALPHONSUS. Also, ALPHONSUS was erroneously used as my Surname on my Account details instead of OGARAKU ALPHONSUS ABUCHI which are my correct names. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

ADELEKAN MUFTAU

I, formerly known and addressed as BABATUNDE ADEBOWALE ADELEKAN now wish to be known and addressed as ADELEKAN MUFTAU BABATUNDE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

ADDITION OF NAME

This is to certify and confirm that my name was wrongly written as IROBI PETER on my National Identification Number Slip instead of IROBI PETER CHUKWUCHETAM. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

ABDULQUDUS OLAWUYI

HASSAN –AJISAFE

This is to certify and confirm that my name was wrongly written as DAVID MICHEAL and SEGUN MICHEAL DAVID instead of DAVID OLUSEGUN MICHAEL. That my correct name is DAVID OLUSEGUN MICHAEL. That my correct date of birth is 26/01/1990. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

ALIUHUO CHINASA

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to certify and confirm that NWODO NSUDE SUNDAY EMMANUEL, SUNDAY NSUDE and NWODO NSUDE SUNDAY refers as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed as SUNDAY NSUDE. My correct date of birth is 27/06/1976. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

Mrs. Elege Folashade

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

This is to inform the general public of loss of ORIGINAL LAND DOCUMENTS. The location of the land is AGUISI, EKULU EMENE, Registered as No 62/62/374 at the Land Registry Enugu, belonging to OKAFOR BASIL. All effort of trace the said document has proved abortive. If found please contact the Ministry of Lands and Urban Development.

Olatunji Adeola

AKAEZE IJEOMA I formerly known and addressed as OKONKWO IJEOMA LAWRETTA ,now wish to be known and as AKAEZE IJEOMA LAWRETTA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

Mrs KODAOLU ADEROJU

Formely known and addressed as Miss Oladimeji Folashade Olayemi. Now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Elege Folashade olayemi.All former documents remain valid, FIRST BANK and General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as Adebowale Adeola Adebimpe Now wish to be known and addressed as Olatunji Adeola Adebimpe.All former documents remain valid General public and Authority concerned please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as Miss TAIWO ADEROJU RUKAYAT Now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs KODAOLU ADEROJU RUKAYAT PATRICIA. All former documents remain valid General public and Authority concerned please take note.

Mrs Okeya Oluwafunke

Ifeanyi Geoffrey Formerly known and addressed as Ifeanyi Kingsley Njikonye Now wish to be known and Addressed as Ifeanyi Geoffrey Oguh All former documents remain. Valid general. Public note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, ABOSEDE OLUFUNMILAYO OGUNLEYE now wish to be known and addressed as, ABOSEDE OLUFUNMILAYO TAIWO-KEHINDE. All former documents bearing my former name remains valid. General public should please take note

NNAM VINCENT OBINNA formerly known and addressed as NNAM IFEANYI OBINNA now wish to be known and addressed as NNAM VINCENT OBINNA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as LOVETH ANGEL UHANZOGUN now wish to be known and addressed as MRS LOVETH ANGEL DAVID JAMES. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

Formerly known and addressed as Miss Ogundele Oluwafunke Bosede Now Wish To be known and. Addressed As Mrs Okeya Oluwafunke Bosede All Former.

Documents remain. Valid general public please. Take note.

IGWE NGOZI

I, formerly known and addressed as BLESSING IGWE NGOZI now wish to be known and addressed as IGWE NGOZI STELLA. That my date of birth is 03 April 1992. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

MINIRUDEEN DEBORAH

ABOSEDE OLUFUNMILAYO

MRS LOVETH ANGEL

I, formerly known and addressed as MINIRUDEEN DEBORAH MODUPE now wish to be known and addressed as KAZEEM DEBORAH MODUPE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OLUBUKOLA OYE DADA now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLUBUKOLA OYE DOSUMU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

MRS OLUBUKOLA

MRS CHUKWU NGOZI I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ENYOO NGOZI GLADYS now wish to be known and addressed as MRS CHUKWU NGOZI GLADYS. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

VICTOR JULIUS

LAWAL RUKAYAT I, formerly known and addressed as BADMUS RUKAYAT FOLAKE now wish to be known and addressed as LAWAL RUKAYAT FOLAKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

CLETUS JOY CHINWENDU I, formerly known and addressed as IMOH JOY CHINWENDU now wish to be known and addressed as CLETUS JOY CHINWENDU. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

EYINOLU OLUWAKEMI

I, formerly known and addressed as ABDULQUDUS HUSIEN now wish to be known and addressed as ABDULQUDUS OLAWUYI HUSEIN. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as ALIUHUO CHINASA now wish to be known and addressed as ALIUHUO CHINASA NATHANIEL. That my date of birth is 23/07/1990 and not 14/04/1990. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as FRIDAY JULIUS ASSEDETIN now wish to be known and addressed as VICTOR JULIUS FRIDAY. That my date of birth is 23/02/1988. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

OJEIFO REKIAYAT

IBRAHIM AJIMO I, formerly known and addressed as IBRAHIM ALIMAT now wish to be known and addressed as IBRAHIM AJIMO OMOWUNMI. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

formerly known and addressed as AMAH IFEOMA now wish to be known and addressed as UBA IFEOMA ERICA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as FALUJO ELIZABETH now wish to be known and addressed as EYINOLU OLUWAKEMI TITILAYO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

CORRECTION OF NAME/BIRTH DATE This is to certify and confirm that my name was wrongly written as UDOKA EMMANUEL AKPAN instead of EDET JOSEPH AKPAN. That my correct name is EDET JOSEPH AKPAN . That my correct date of birth is 23/10/1980. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

OMOYAYI GBENGA

MISS CHIMERENMA NZE. I, formerly known and addressed as MISS CHIMERENMA OSUJI, now wish to be known and addressed as MISS CHIMERENMA NZE. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

CHUKWUGODWIN I, formerly known and addressed as GODWINCHUKWU LOIS PRINCESS, now wish to be known and addressed as CHUKWUGODWIN PRINCESS LOIS. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

UBA IFEOMA

I, formerly known and addressed as UGWUANYI JOSEPH now I wish to add OKECHIKWU to my name.

Henceforth, I wish to be known and addressed as UGWUANYI JOSEPH OKECHIKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as OJEIFO REKIAYAT THERESA EHONHON and OJEIFO REKIAYAT THERESA EGHONGHON now wish to be known and addressed as AYINOLUWA REKIAYAT THERESA EGHONGHON. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

OLANIYI ADEOLA I, formerly known and addressed as ADEMOLA ADEOLA VICTORIA now wish to be known and addressed as OLANIYI ADEOLA VICTORIA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as NWAWULU UJU TRACY now wish to be known and addressed as NWAWULU-EGEONU UJU TRACY. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

NWAWULU-EGEONU UJU

BENEDICT ODINAKA I formerly known and addressed as OKONKWO BONIFACE ODINAKA now wish to be known and addressed as BENEDICT ODINAKA BONIFACE. Former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OMOYAYI OJO GBENGA now wish to be known and addressed as OMOYAYI GBENGA MOSES. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

LAWRENCE SAMUEL

I, formerly known and addressed as NWANKWO OLIVER SAMUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as LAWRENCE SAMUEL OLIVER. My correct date of birth is 15th August.

1995. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

EZE CHUKWUNONSO

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THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. OLOYEDE KAMALDEEN-CHAIRMAN 2. OLOYEDE NOTABLE 3. OLOYEDE ABDUL MALIK 4. OLOYEDE TOWER 5. OLOYEDE IBRAHEEM. 6. OLOYEDE ABDUL SALAM 7. JIMOH MUIDEEN AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO ASSIST LESS PRIVILEGE 2. TO SEEK FOR BOTH EDUCATION & HEALTH ASSISTANT. TO HELP WIDOWS, ORPHANS & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

TRUSTEES: 1. NWEZE CHIDIEBERE AUGUSTINE 2. ENE CHIKA CAROL 3. NWEZE LILIAN AMUCHE 4. UCHE CHINEZE MONICA 5. MBA IFEOMA CHRISTY 6. ENEBE EUCHARIA CHIKA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE GIRL CHILD EDUCATION. 2. TO PROPAGATE CAREER AWARENESS AND EDUCATION AMONG YOUTHS. 3. TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH EDUCATION AND ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED UGWUEZE EZEKIEL OBIOMA ESQ. 07030893608

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LOSS OF DOCUMENT THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF THE LETTER OF OFFER /ALLOCATION BELONGING TO MRS ANNA SAMMY IN RESPECT OF HER PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE AT PLOT 1441A,ALONG 19 ROAD,1ST AVENUE, FESTAC TOWN, LAGOS. ALL EFFORTS MADE TO LOCATE THE MISSING DOCUMENT PROVED ABORTIVE.

SPRINGVALLY BAPTIST CHURCH MISSIONS THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. THOMPSONS ISRAEL. 2. UDOFIA VICTOR THOMPSON. 3. THOMPSONS SARAH ISRAEL. AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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UMUHU-OKABIA PROGRESSIVE UNION

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THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, 1990.

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, 1990.

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TRUSTEES 1 DR. AJAYI OLUWOLE 2. BAKO AYEDIME BABA

TRUSTEES: 1. JOHN SAMUEL CHIGOZIE 2. OBINNA ALAKWE

AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE A SENSE OF BROTHERLINESS, UNITY AND ONENESS AMONG THE ONWA DIAMOND CLUB 2. TO ENCOURAGE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, LEGITIMATE EFFORT AIMED AT THE ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AMONG THE ONWA DIAMOND CLUB

TRUSTEES: 1. WISDOM ABASIRIM - CHAIRMAN 2. FELIX ODIKAESIEME 3. SERJUS AZUBIKE OGWE 4. ANAYO HERBERT NDIOGU 5. UCHECHUKWU GODWIN AKAEDU 6. KENNETH ROLAND EGOLE 7. CHUKWUDI MADUKA - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE INDIGENES OF THE COMMUNITY. 2. TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WELFARE OF EVERY MEMBER. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: CHUKWUDI MADUKA, ESQ SECRETARY

MIDDLEMARSH FARMERS TRUST THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAME FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF ITS TRUSTEES AND CHANGE OF ITS REGISTERED OFFICE ADDRESS UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED ACT, 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. JENNIFER IZUEGBU. P 2. MARK - EURIEL CHUKWUDUM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE 2. DEVELOPMENT OF AGRO ENTREPRENEURSHIP 3. COLLECTION AND DISPERSAL OF FUNDS TO SUPPORT SMALL SCALE FARMERS 4. ENDING HUNGER IN AFRICA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANISATIONS OF LIKE OBJECTS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA. WITHIN TWENTY EIGHT (28) DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE ONWA DIAMOND CLUB

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INTEGRATED AID FOR HELPLESS MANKIND FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAME FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF ITS TRUSTEES AND CHANGE OF ITS REGISTERED OFFICE ADDRESS UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED ACT, 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES 1. ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED REMOVED 2. HARUNA MAMMAN RETAINED 3. ALHAJI SAMBO BABA RETAINED 4. ZANGINA JIBRIL ALI RETAINED 5. GONI UMAR MALLAM RETAINED 6. SHERIFF SALISU IBRAHIM RETAINED THE REASON FOR THE REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE IS AS A RESULT AND INACTIVE PERFORMANCE OF ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED OLD ADDRESS: 15, ENUGU STREET OFF DAMBOGA ROAD , MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE. NEW ADDRESS: NO. 16B GOLDEN PLAZA, KANO/JOS ROAD , MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA. WITHIN TWENTY EIGHT (28)DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. __________________________ CHAIRMAN

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__________________________ SECRETARY

PRAYING PARENT PRAYER GROUP CHRISTIAN MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAME FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF ITS TRUSTEES AND CHANGE OF ITS REGISTERED OFFICE ADDRESS UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED ACT, 1990.

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TRUSTEES ARE : 1. BABALOLA EMMANUEL AYOPO .... CHAIRMAN 2. TONADE ADEBAYO JENROLA ........ SECRETARY 3. OLOGUNDUDU ODUNMORAYO OLUWATOSIN ..... TREASURER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAIMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

OLUMULO GBEYIN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA. THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS OF 1990.

TRUSTEES : 1. MR ADEWALE GANIYU AJANI - CHAIRMAN 2. MR MUNIRUDEEN ADISA ADEBISI - SECRETARY 3. MRS ABOSEDE PATRICIA AJANI 4. MR ODUNAYO JOHN BAMMEKE 5. MR BABATUNDE OLUWASEUN FADIPE 6. MR. JOEL OMONIYI AKOGUN. AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF CONSUMERS OF GOODS AND SERVICES IN NIGERIA. 2. TO EDUCATE CONSUMERS OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OF THEIR RIGHTS. 3. TO ENSURE THAT QUALITY STANDARD ARE ADHERED TO BY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF GOODS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAIMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED:SECRETARY

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Wike to APC: You have no business presenting guber candidate in Rivers Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

The Rivers State governor, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has declared that for the All Progressive Congress (APC) to contemplate presenting a governorship candidate for the 2019 election in the state shows that something was fundamentally wrong with the party.

Speaking at the Government House Port Harcourt, Governor Wike stated that aside the alleged plot to rig, the APC had no platform to campaign upon in Rivers State.

Wike said: “For the APC to even think of bringing up anybody against me in this state to challenge me, whether I have done something or not, then you know that something is

fundamentally wrong.

“What has the Federal Government done for the APC in Rivers State? What has Rivers APC achieved? Mention one thing. Is it in terms of the roads, the airport or seaports? Tell me”.

He regretted that the APC did not believe in credible polls, alleging that rigging and fraud were in the DNA of the party.

“All their meetings, all their gatherings at the federal level, centre on how they must win in Rivers State, whether by hook or crook. They want to use soldiers, SARS, DSS. All cries by the international community don’t matter. Just take Rivers State first,” he alleged.

Governor Wike said that as a Minister of State for Education, his contributions to the development of Rivers State were scattered across the state and wondered

why the current Minister of Transportation has “failed the people of Rivers State by refusing to attract a single project to the state.”

Governor Wike said: “When I was a minister and he was in APC, I brought development to the state. For example, I brought Faculty of Law to the University of Port Harcourt. I brought grant of N500 million to Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic and Ignatius Ajuru University Of Education.

“I am from Rivers State and must contribute to the development of the state. As at the time I was in the Federal Government, he was the Governor under APC and there was no development in the state.

I brought UBEC intervention to Rivers State. This is my state,” he stated.

He said that as Governor of

Rivers State, he transformed the state, citing some key projects across the state.

He said that his third year anniversary celebration underscored the fundamentals of good governance with leaders across political, traditional, and social divides commissioning key projects.

According to the governor, in October, his administration would commence another leg of project commissioning, noting that President Muhammadu Buhari would be invited to commission projects, even though he would be unlikely to honour the invitation for political reasons.

Governor Wike said that contrary to the propaganda of the APC, he was not against the Federal Government, adding that he was only committed to the fight against injustice.

Ortom, Anyanwu, Makinde returned PDP guber nomination form Tunde Opalana, Abuja As submission of nomination form for elective posts in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) closes today, three governorship aspirants, Governor Samuel Orton of Benue, Senator Samuel Anyanwu of Imo and Engr. Seyi Makinde of Oyo states, yesterday submitted their expression of interest and nomination forms at the party secretariat, Abuja.

Submitting the form on behalf of the Benue State governor, his Special Adviser on Special Duties, Hon. Abraham Kwanghngu said his principal as a sitting governor GIWA OLUWASEYI

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has the first right of refusal and ready to go into contest with any other person because the party’s constitution does not give room for automatic ticket.

“We are going to participate in the primaries and I can assure you that the governor is sure of victory.

So we are not even thinking that we shall get automatic ticket,” he said.

He said Ortom is a founding member of PDP, and was national auditor of the party, serving minister under the party who has done enough to earn himself a second term as a governor.

“We have over 700 primary schools constructed in Benue state.

Some that are not completed are 90 percent complete.

He said recent happening in the state shows that all the major stake holders came together to give their backing to the governor.

A senator representing Imo East senatorial district, Samuel Anyanwu who personally submitted his governorship nomination form said he has been called upon by his people to rescue Imo State.

He said the Rochas Okorocha led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration has in the last seven years taken away the welfare of the people flagrantly disobeyed rule of law, relegated education to the background and failed woefully in other infrastructural development.

He said he could be trusted with the governance of Imo State having held several political positions and ran six elections winning all.

“I we been entrusted with the state resources and have not failed, I am not a serial loser and I am interested in putting Imo back on track”.

A governorship aspirant from Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde, said the chances of the PDP and himself could not be threatened by the defection of former governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja from the PDP. “We won’t say that the exit of anybody, even if it is a single individual won’t have an impact because this is a game of number.

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Serena Williams hails Nike for Kaepernick campaign

Serena Williams reiterated her admiration for American football player turned activist Colin Kaepernick on Tuesday, and praised apparel maker Nike for featuring him in a new ad campaign.

“Especially proud to be a part of the Nike family today. #justdoit,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion tweeted before she headed out to book a US Open semi-final berth with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Karolina Pliskova.

The ads prompted immediate calls for Nike boycotts over Kaepernick, who has been castigated by President Donald Trump and other conservatives for kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial and social injustice, a

demonstration he began in 2016.

The former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Kaepernick has been effectively blacklisted by the NFL, and Nike shares tumbled early Tuesday over worries a campaign around such a controversial figure could harm sales.

Williams told reporters after her victory over Pliskova that she thought the company made a “powerful” statement.

“He’s done a lot for the African American community, and it’s cost him a lot,” Williams said. “It’s sad. But he continues to do the best that he can.

“Having a huge company back him, you know, could be a controversial (decision) for this company, but they’re

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not afraid,” added Williams, who has had an endorsement deal with Nike since 2003.

“I feel like that was a really powerful statement to a lot of other companies.”

As to whether athletes have a role to play in political and social discourse, Williams said she thought it was up to individuals.

“It’s their choice,” she said. “I think that’s one great thing God gave us, is the freedom of choice.

“My choice is to choose to just be the best — try to be. I’m not always perfect.

Actually I’m never perfect. (I) just try to be the best that I can be, maybe I can just influence one person and that makes a change already.”

Super Eagles coach banned, fined over payment The Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday said it had banned Super Eagles coach Salisu Yusuf for 12 months and fined him $5,000 (4,300 euros) for receiving cash from undercover journalists posing as agents.

The NFF ethics and fair play committee found Yusuf guilty of accepting $1,000 after he was caught on camera being asked to select two players for the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN).

“He is hereby banned for the period of one year, from partaking or involvement or participation in any football-related activity, effective from

the date of this decision,” the NFF said.

“He is also fined in the sum of $5,000 to be paid within three months of the date of this decision.”

Yusuf, who denied any wrongdoing, has the option to appeal.

The BBC, which aired the footage, said the report was part of a wider investigation into corruption in African football by the Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

His expose led to the resignation of the head of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, after he was accused of soliciting bribes and kickbacks.

Yusuf said in response to the BBC in July that the sum was $750, not $1,000,

and was a “gift of trivial and symbolic value”, that was acceptable within NFF and FIFA guidelines.

But the committee said Yusuf’s actions had “a damaging effect on the reputation and integrity of Nigerian football”.

It added that “he ought to have conducted himself more professionally… as his conduct in public and in secret should be exemplary, since coaches are role models”.

Yusuf, who previously coached Enyimba and Kano Pillars, helped senior men’s team coach Gernot Rohr steer the Super Eagles to this year’s World Cup in Russia.

Super Eagles forward Alex Iwobi Former world half marathon pulls out of AFCON qualifier champion Paul Koech dies at 49 Arsenal forward Alex Iwobi is the second player who will miss Saturday’s AFCON qualifier against Seychelles after reports that Torino defender Ola Aina is out due to injury, officials said.

Iwobi has been ill and was therefore not listed for his club’s last game in the Premier League.

“Iwobi is out. Coach Rohr has already conveyed this information to his staff,”

a top team official said.

Ola Aina suffered a muscle problem during a Serie A game against SPAL. How long he will be sidelined is expected to be ascertained after a scan by his Italian club.

Officials said they will not rule out more withdrawals.

But it is still unknown whether some of the players on standby will be called up to replace the absentees.

Paul Koech, a former world half marathon champion and longtime teammate of Kenyan great Paul Tergat, has died. He was 49.

The Kenyan track and field federation said on Wednesday that Koech died on Monday after a short illness. The federation did not release any more details.

“Paul was a great track, crosscountry and road-racing athlete,” Athletics Kenya said.

Koech won the world half marathon championship in Zurich in 1998. At the 1996 Atlanta OIympics, he finished sixth in the 10 000 metres and the following year was fourth at the world championships. Tergat won silver in both of those races.

In 1997, Koech ran the third-fastest 10 000 in history, finishing second behind Tergat as his friend broke the world record in the event.

The IAAF said it was “deeply saddened” to hear of Koech’s death.

Koech was a major in the Kenyan armed forces and a member of the Athletics Kenya executive committee at the time of his death.

Tergat, now head of the Kenyan Olympic committee, said Koech was highly patriotic and hard working.

“It’s beyond belief he is no longer with us,” Tergat said. “This was a very good friend of mine and not only did we represent the country together but he believed entirely in national duty.

“He was someone who was a refined officer. He was firm, never believed in any short cuts … this is very painful.”

Koech was a three-time Kenyan cross-country champion, an impressive feat in a highly competitive running nation.

He often got the better of Tergat at national championships but he never managed to win

the coveted world cross-country title. He did win individual silver behind Tergat and the team gold with Kenya at the cross-country worlds in 1998, his best season.

“Fearless racer but a truly humble and gracious person who always had time for a chat at a race,” former Australian distance runner Lee Troop wrote on Twitter.

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